My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

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

One serial killer sends me a human head in a box, and I get all spooked; Go figure.

I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no one has the right to just arbitrarily snuff them out.” "So it is the sanctity of life you cling to?" I nodded. “That and the fact that every human being is special. Every death is a loss of something precious and irreplaceable.

You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.

If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.

I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.