the pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it.

You smell of other peoples blood, ma petite. It was no one you know. -Jean Claude and Anita

Women may get to wear lots of pretty colors, but men get the comfortable shoes. Anita Blake Vampire Hunter

Better to assume the worst and be wrong than assume the best and be wrong.

They say not to look back, but if you’re not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back?

People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes your soul under the weight of mountains. It destroys, and even if you keep breathing, keep going, you die.

What is it about her that is so goddamned special?