It's not about winning, Haven. I'm not a prize to be won. I'm not the princess that needs rescuing from the dragon. I'm the prince and I kill my own monsters. You need to be ok with that. -Anita Blake

one of the good things about being a woman is that my level of testosterone poisoning is lower than most men's.

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens

Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.

I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.

It's good not to be the only girl in the fight for once.

There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.