Maybe you’re not willing to give up a lover who’s colder than you are.

Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others

I am the Executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I’m the one that you get to see. Once.

He made a small sigh, as he swallowed the first blood, then his mouth closed over my earlobe, mouth working at the wound, tongue coaxing blood from the wound. He pressed his body the length of mine, one hand cupping my turned head, the other playing down the line of my body. Maybe it was just blood, but I never stroked my steak while eating it.

Ma petite is not a subtle woman. Unless you say it, she will not understand it.

Magic, if that was the right word, often rises and falls on your own belief in your abilities. I've seen very powerful people completely crippled by self-doubt.

He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.