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.

For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end of the book.

They say not to look back, but if you’re not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back?

You smell of other peoples blood, ma petite. It was no one you know. -Jean Claude and Anita

If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die.

-Please, Anita, go home, and don’t freak. Just go home, and be happy. Be happy, and let everyone around you be happy. Is that so hard? When Jason said it like that, it didn’t seem hard. In fact, it seemed to make a lot of sense, but inside, it felt hard. Inside it felt like the hardest thing in the world. To just let go, and not pick everything to death. To just let go and enjoy what you had. To just let go and not make everybody around you miserable with your own internal dialogue. To just let go and be happy. So simple. So difficult. So terrifying.

Jason patted me on the back. “Tomorrow night we'll take you out chasing deer.” “I thought you'd chase cars,” I said. He grinned. “What fun is that? Cars don't bleed.