Give a truly good person power, and they’re still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they’re still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that...

He made a small sigh, as he swallowed the first blood, then his mouth closed over my earlobe, mouth working at the wound, tongue coaxing blood from the wound. He pressed his body the length...

If you’re open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.

trust me, Anita, if you get dead, especially if he blames himself in any way, he will be a force of destruction looking for a place to be aimed. And he’s blamed himself for introducing...

All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good.

I’m dating three men, living with two more, and having occasional sex with two others. That’s seven men. I’m like a pornographic Snow White. I think seven is plenty.

Vampires are people too!

I’m Christian, but if God is truly a God of love, then why would he have a private torture chamber where he put people that he was supposed to love and forgive to be punished...

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

It may be a crush, or hero worship (…), it may not be love, but if you’ve never felt anything stronger, how do you tell the difference?

Please, Anita, go home, and don’t freak. Just go home, and be happy. Be happy, and let everyone around you be happy. Is that so hard?When Jason said it like that, it didn’t seem hard....

Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a...

The sunken grave would fade away, probably in my lifetime. If I could avoid killer zombies for a few years. And vampires. And gun-toting humans. Oh, hell, the hot-spot would probably outlast me.

What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you.

If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn’t feel so compelled to write myself.

Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly.

Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man...

Can the sarcasm,’ he said. ‘Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.

If the eyes are the window to the soul, then Edward’s in trouble ’cause no one is home.

I’m not sure there are enough white roses in the world to make me forget Richard.” I held up my hand before she could interrupt. “But I’m not sure there are enough cozy afternoons in...

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don’t believe in yourself, no one else will.

Then stop trying to throw logic at nightmares. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they’re real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster. ~Bibiana to Anita

My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you’ve been mean to someone, they won’t believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until...

He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.

Feelings are never stupid, they just make us feel stupid sometimes.

If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

Some people just don’t seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain’t true, folks.

I sipped my own coffee, heavy on the sugar and cream, trying to make up for the late work the night before. Caffeine and sugar, the two basic food groups.

I knew from the moment I heard you, the moment I saw the gun and realized that this lovely, petit woman was the executioner, that you would never die waiting for me to save you...

Make them fear you. Machiavelli said it nearly six hundred years ago, but it’s still true. Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them...

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.