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

Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita

Nothing is certain, ma petite, not even death." - Jean-Claude

So many of us had been armed that there were holsters and weapons scattered among the passed-out bodies like mercenary prizes in a fleshy Cracker Jack box.

Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development

Sometimes the greatest wounds are the ones we try the hardest not to inflict.

trust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of destruction looking for a place to be aimed. And he's blamed himself for introducing you to Olaf here from the get-go. If Olaf did to you what he's done to some of his other victims, Edward would drown the world in blood to erase those images.