When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?

So many of us had been armed that there were holsters and weapons scattered among the passed-out bodies like mercenary prizes in a fleshy Cracker Jack box.

Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they’re real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.' - Chang Bibi to Anita

There was a time when you would have taken my heart with stake or gun. Now you have taken it with these delicate hands and the scent of your body." - Jean-Claude

Nothing like fear to wash your mind clean.

Nothing is certain, ma petite, not even death." - Jean-Claude

I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.