Oh, ma petite, you are growing gargantuan." I looked at him and it was not a friendly look. "Never tease a woman about her weight, Jean-Claude. At least not an American twentieth-century one." He Spread his hands wide. "My deepest apologies." "When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect.

A certain type of man, when he loves for the first time, his love is not really love, it is possession. Possessions don't have rights or feelings; they are something to owned and controlled. He had spent more than a year trying to do just that, and failing.

What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?

I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.

Sex is like crying, it does look pretty if you really do it

I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see what you hit.

What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you.