Trying is always enough.

[C]hildren were a much more difficult audience than adults because no on had yet had a chance to teach them that it was better to be polite than honest.

Damn it” I said “I don’t suppose you have any ideas on how to kill Littleton” He smiled at me, his teeth very white in the darkness of his face “Eat him” he said.

Death isn’t a tragedy to God, only to those left behind.

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...

I need you to survive, he answered me without speaking, without looking at me. I need to know you survive.

It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.

Nothing says you’re sorry like a dead bunny.

Civilization is vastly overrated.

The main thing to remember is that making love is at onces the silliest and the most sacred act humans can perform.

A man learns with age, if he is lucky.

Hijo de Chihuahua,” said Mary Jo.

I am the reality of all coyotes. The archetype. The epitome. You are just a reflection of me.

A king who trusts no man is weak.

Humans, werewolves, or, apparently, vampire, it doesn’t matter; get more than three of them together and the jockeying for power begins.

One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed. (Bone Crossed)

Um. Charles thinks that his wolf has chosen me as his mate.””In less than one full day?” It did sound dumb when he said it that way.”Yes.” she couldn’t keep the uncertainty of her her...

Trust you to quote Lancelot rather than Guinevere.

Stop that, Anna scolded him. You don’t need to hurt because I do.But I do, Charles replied, more honestly than he intended.

I’ve never seen any evidence that it’s real. But I’ve never seen anything that disproves it either. I believe the afterlife is better than what we have here—and it would take something extraordinary to make...

I’d walk barefoot over hot coals for you.

ChEEZ-zes crusty. Got Al -musty. Got DAMp on the StoneofapeaCH.

Love is not necessary for sex.

Reluctantly, I pulled out my necklace and showed it to them.Samuel frowned. The little figure was stylized; I suppose he couldn’t tell what it was at first.”A dog?” asked Zee, staring at my necklace.”A lamb,”...

And thus Charles found himself wandering around a hotel, trailing federal agents as he held a cardboard coffee cup holder in each hand, instead of out killing misbehaving werewolves.

One more month,” he said finally. “And then they—and Samuel, too—will just have to get used to it. His eye is the color of a bitch with dark chocolate, worst few years and he leaned...

Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.

You have to acknowledge evil, or you give it too much power over you.

You’d tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.

We’ve determined that Ms. Hauptman is a potential threat to the public safety, and we are bringing her in as a murder suspect who has supernatural powers that make her too dangerous to be incarcerated...

One of my professors once told me that the last official act of the British monarchy was when Queen Victoria refused to sign a law that made same-sex acts illegal. It would have made me...

Brother Wolf gave Anna an amused look and then went back to being scary.

Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, “At the very least, you will be polite to them.

I give up. What’s the use of having a man in the house?

When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone —‘I didn’t mean to startle her

All right,” Mom said. She gave Samuel a stern look,”Now I don’t know what’s going on between you and my daughter and Adam Hauptman-“”Neither do we,” I mutteredSamuel grinned “We have it pretty well worked...

Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.

Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team.

Yes,’ he said sincerely. ‘Such a one deserves peanut butter on the seat of his pants.

I don’t like lies,” said Bran, and I knew I’d failed to keep the pain of his revelation from my face. “Not even lies of omission. Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but...

We have a whole garage worth of tools — pry bars, tire irons, and even a hammer or two. There’s got to be something better than my torque wrench he could have grabbed.

Thank you,” Ben replied, looking modest.

Werewolf games,’ Mercy said solemnly, ‘play for keeps, or go home.’ She was so cute sometimes it made Adam’s heart hurt.

Fortunately, he’d found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning. .

When he grew up, he wanted to be like Charles.

It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.

Adam didn’t approve of Wal-Mart.

Any idiot can put up a website.

Don’t make light of any man’s pain.

I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn’t Buffy–I was so screwed.