Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that’s based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it.

I know that look, Blake. You are a drowning woman, and the only way out is down the aisle.

A little boy who's discovered the monster under the bed is actually real, and it's screwing Mommy.

He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll be just as dead.

Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.

Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write

You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.