People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes your soul under the weight of mountains. It destroys, and even if you keep breathing, keep going, you die.

Give a truly good person power, and they’re still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they’re still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn’t evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don’t always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.

the pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it.

There are only two kinds of vampire hunters: good ones and dead ones.

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

Morals aren't just for when it's easy, Anita. They aren't morals if you throw them aside every time it's convenient.

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print