Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.

I’d have much rather gotten dragged into someone else’s fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people’s emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.

There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.

Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.

You should hit him in the face with frying pans more often," Said Rhys "he seems to like it

The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.