If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder

Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you're afraid to say out loud.

I give good advice. I do not always take it.

I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time

I, Anita Blake, scourge of the undead-the human with more vampire kills than any other vampire executioner in the country-was dating a vampire. It was poetically ironic.

Never interrupt when you're winning.

Is it better to outmonster the monsters or to be quietly devoured?