Zerbrowski said, "Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try." It took me a second to realize that he had just quoted Star Wars to me. It made me smile, and in that moment I loved him, just for that.

I tended to be hard on the egos of a certain kind of men. The ones who normally swept women off their feet had never moved me much, because I'd always felt that if they swept me off my feet they'd practiced on a lot of women before me, and would practice more with women after me. I'd rarely been wrong on that. ~Anita Blake

True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.

Never throw stones if you think they're going to come back and hit you.

When you spend all your time worrying that the devil is right behind you, eventually you start seeing him whether he's there or not.

I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years,” I said.

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks