It was an hour before dawn. When all the Whos down in Whoville were asnooze in their beds without care. Sorry, wrong book. If I get to stay awake until dawn, I get just a tad slaphappy.

True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's illusion and lies to me.

No, death hadn't changed [Willie] much. But just in case, I avoided looking directly into his eyes. It was standard policy for dealing with vampires. He was a slime bucket, but now he was an undead slime bucket.

The rich and powerful always seem to prefer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? -- Anita Blake

Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.

I will go to my grave seeing the look on your face at the last. Keep it up and you'll go sooner than later.

Be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.