A woman will forget that a man is male, if they are good enough friends, but men rarely forget that a woman is feminine.

It means black kitten," I said with my pulse almost even again. Ares studied me. "And you're ok with them calling you their black kitten?" "They're wererats, Ares," I said. He frowned at me. "They're not calling me their little black rat. Think it through.

I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control?

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

Different isn't evil, it's just different.

When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it.

We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it.