She tried to imagine what Charles would do if another man came up to him and said, "You bring me joy.

Over a lifetime of dealing with difficult women, I have learned it is often better to give into their demands immediately.

He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.

"I thought Indians built fires with fiction." .... "I can do that, but I'd like to eat sometime in the next day or so. Sterno and Bic are much faster."

I suppose we must work on being gracious and grateful until we can do for ourselves. Someday the wheel of fate will put us in a position to be of use to them, and we will remember how much easier it is to give help than it is to accept it.

People who know other people’s secrets can’t afford to do things that impair their ability to control their mouths.

Warren made a noise, the first one I'd heard out of him since we'd come into the room. I'd have been happier if he hadn't sounded scared. "Easy, Warren," Adam told him. "You're safe here.” "If you die on us, you won't be," said Kyle with a growl that would have done credit to any of the werewolves in the room.