I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.

If I wasn't dead already, I'd said I was having a heart attack.

He ordered food with a childlike glee and watched me eat, tasting it as I did. In private he'd roll on his back like a cat, hands pressed to his mouth as if trying to drain every taste. It was the only thing he did that was cute. He was gorgeous, sensual, but rarely cute. - Anita Blake about Jean-Claude

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.

If you have a choice between extra makeup or extra weapons always take the weapons. Just the fact that you're debating between those two choices proves that you're going to need the weapons more.

Compromise is an imperfect act.

He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.