When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect

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

I was shaking all over, and it wasn't from the vampire. Memories have teeth, too.

Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that’s based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it.

"I was just offered a contract on your life, for enough money to make it worth my while." It was my turn to be quiet. "Did you take it?" "Would I be calling you if I had?" "Maybe," I said. He laughed. "True, but I'm not going to take it." "Why not?" "Friendship." "Try again," I said. "I figure I'll get to kill more people guarding you. If I take the contract, I only get to kill you." "Comforting."

I looked up at Ellen and her not-glowing pentagram. "Harm none is the rule, Ellen: bad witch, no cookie.

I am the Executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I’m the one that you get to see. Once.