a pink taffeta evening gown. It looked like it had run away from a junior high prom... The dress looked like a petunia on steroids to me.

If you keep a gun in your purse, you get killed, because no woman can find anything in her purse in under twelve minutes. It's a rule.

I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.

There are things that can harm a lot more than physically.

I wasn't afraid of him anymore, because I could smell his fear. You never had to be afraid of anything that was afraid of you.

I was shaking all over, and it wasn't from the vampire. Memories have teeth, too.

If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die.