True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's illusion and lies to me.

There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken.

Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated

I know you can throw holy water on the vampire, but I didn't know you could throw the host." (Sheriff St. John) I had to smile. "They aren't like little holy grenades. I want the host to give to the Quinlans so they can put one at every windowsill, every doorsill." (Anita Blake)

It would be nice if you’d stop almost killing me because you don’t want to screw other peo­ple.

I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print

The true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs." You have to love Anita Blake.