Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don’t want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight.

A woman will forget that a man is male, if they are good enough friends, but men rarely forget that a woman is feminine.

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

There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder

I looked at Micah, who shrugged. I looked at Rafael, who shook his head. Nice that none of us knew why he was undressing.

I turned down Halloween parties every year, where people wanted zombies raised at the stroke of midnight or some such nonsense. The scarier my reputation got, the more people wanted me to come be scary for them. I'd told Bert I could always go and threaten to shoot all the partygoers, that'd be scary. Bert had not been amused. But he had stopped asking me to do parties.