I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.

If the eyes are the window to the soul, then Edward's in trouble 'cause no one is home.

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

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

That kiss was really nice you know before you...bit me, but it was still nice.

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

Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.