If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.

I’d learned a long time ago that you can’t prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it’s the devil to prove you didn’t do something.

I stared at Jean-Claude and it wasn't the beauty of him that made me love him, it was just him. It was love made up of a thousand touches, a million conversations, a trillion shared looks. A love made up of danger shared, enemies conquered, a determination to neither of us would change the other, even if we could. I love Jean-Claude, all of him, because if I took away the Machiavellian plottings, the labyrinth of his mind, it would lessen him, make him someone else.

I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail

I'd made sure I knew his name. You shouldn't ask people to die for you if you don't at least know their name.