I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.

It was just you had to be strong, and if you weren’t strong you’re a victim and you’re not going to make it. That was the reality when I was growing up.

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail.

Why, you may ask, didn’t we have a cow tonight? No one would sell Bayard one. He had the brilliant idea of telling the farmers why he wanted the cow. The God-fearing folk would sell...

Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he’s not starting over on the paperwork.

Before I knew you, I thought brave was not being afraid. You’ve taught me that bravery is being terrified and doing it anyway.

It wasn’t just my beast’s hunger, but Jean-Claude’s blood thirst and Richard’s craving for flesh. It was all that and the ardeur running through all of it, so that one hunger fed into the next...

I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice.

You just wanted to walk in front of me so I’d have to stare at your butt

Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.

He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I’d known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn’t...

Why does anger makes people pretty? Rage doesn’t. Rage makes you ugly, but a little anger, that just seems to add spice. One of nature’s cruelties, or maybe it’s to keep us from killing each...

Perfect, complete, needing nothing, simply all there was, was the dark.

The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.

Jestli jsou oči zrcadlem duše, pak je Edward v maléru, protože nikdo není doma.

Why is everything always my decision?” I asked.Because you will not tolerate anything else.”Oh, I remembered now. “Great”, I whispered.- Anita to Jean-Claude

It’s better to be loved than feared, but if you can’t be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli

Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn’t.

One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don’t shy away from it. Why should I?

That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were innocent. And I hadn’t been innocent for years.

Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.

One thing I’ve learned about vampires–they keep pulling new rabbits out of their cloaks. Big, fanged, carnivorous bunnies that’ll eat your eyeballs if you’re not paying attention.

We can order him to make appointments and talk to someone, but we can’t force him to actually do the work. You’ve got to be willing to work on your issues. You’ve got to be...

That’s what underwear is for, girls, so if an emergency happens you only show your cookies to the people you love.

I think like a detective.

But I was naturally suspicious; it comes from working too closely with the police for too long. Cynicism is so contagious.

It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

Sometimes it’s not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you...

…on the job there was nothing but the job. You left the shit outside the door. You could always pick it up on your way back out.

I wasn’t like most girls.

Orospu çocuğu kan emicilerle çıkmaya başladığından beri bana hiç bir konuda tüm gerçeği anlattığına inanmıyorum Anita”Politik olarak doğrusunu söylemek gerekirse,senin o orospu çocuğu kan emici dediğin vampir, ST Louis’nin Şehir Efendisi Dolp”O seninde efendinmi Anita?”Ne?”Şehir...

I will bathe in your warmth ma petite. Roll you around me until my heart beats only for you. My breath will grow warm from your kiss.

If you are following Deity’s plan for you, it isn’t always the easy path; sometimes it’s the hard one. So why follow? Because to do any less is to betray your own abilities and gifts,...

I think we can do it.””But you don’t know for sure,” he said.”No.””Geez, Anita.””Don’t get rattled on me. We can do this.””But you aren’t sure.””I’m not sure we’ll survive the plane ride home, but I’m...

Like most creative people I don’t fit well into boxes.

My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends – I can give them advice, but they don’t have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like...

Accidental sex. He made it sound like I fell down, and there just happened to be an erection in the way.

I sat on the bed. Neither of us said anything. I wasn’t slick and sophisticated enough for this. What do you say to boyfriend A when he finds you naked in the bed of boyfriend...

Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.

We aren’t the good guys, Anita. We’re the necessary guys. -Edward

You give the reader a sense of a full meal.

That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both

The heart wants what it wants, Dolp. You don’t plan on making your life complicated, it just happens,and you don”t do it on purpose, and you don’t do it to hurt people who love you....

I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I’m not really a cop, or a soldier. I...

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

She’d been a good nurse, and now she’d never be a nurse again. She was bitter about it and had turned herself into the slut bride from Planet X, as if even in human form,...

Never argue with your characters; they know themselves better than you do.