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

"Lastly, people seemed to think that morality was the same thing as being politically correct, and it wasn't. Some of the most deeply moral people I knew were least politically correct, because they actually worried about good and evil, not just what they were told was good or bad."

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

"I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't."

"Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies."

"Out last chance is a cat's magic sight. We are doomed."

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

"Ethan gave me an admiring look that wasn't about sex, but about that guy moment when they realize you are not just another pretty face, but maybe, just maybe you can be cute, petite, and one of the guys all at the same time."

"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."

"If you didn't understand the need for friendship or love, could you be lonely?"

"I looked at Micah, who shrugged. I looked at Rafael, who shook his head. Nice that none of us knew why he was undressing."

"What do you do with a master vampire that won't leave you alone? Good question. Unfortunately, what I needed was a good answer."

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

"I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though."

"I hate women who complain about being fat when they're like a size 5. Anything under size 5 isn't a woman. It's a boy with breasts."

"When in doubt, ignore and be horribly unimpressed."

"There is some comfort in killing that which has hurt you, but it is cold comfort. It'll destroy things inside of you that the original pain wouldn't have harmed. Sometimes it's not a question of whether a piece of your soul is going to go missing, only which piece it's going to be."

"I knew what was like to finally be seduced by the thing you hunted. Mine just happened to be a more traditional seduction. Okay, at least I was still among the living."

"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."

"Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't."

"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 forever? If you actually read the Bible, the idea of hell like in the movies and most books was invented by a writer. Dante's Inferno was ripped off by the Church to give people something to be afraid of, to literally scare people into being Christian."

"Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright."

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

"Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop."

"To gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that you have to have courage; without it, you can't make the leap. And if you don't make the leap you have only three choices: You can hate yourself for not taking the chance, you can hate the person from whom you've sacrificed your happiness, or you can hate the one who offered you happiness, and blame them for your lack of courage, convince yourself it wasn't real."

"I don't have a master. I'm not sure if I have an equal."

"Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not."

"I know, I know. I rescued him and he's bonded to me like a baby duck."

"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 B? Especially if boyfriend A turned into a monster the night before and ate someone. I bet Miss Manners didn't cover this at all."

"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 - that you would save yourself."

"Sex was never as neat as the movies made it. Real sex was messy. Good sex was messier."

"Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil."

"You should never attack a necromancer in a cemetery, it's like chasing Rambo into a building full of loaded guns. Some people seem to help you kill them."

"Believe this, Bitch."

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

"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, she wanted people to know what she was now: different, other. Trouble was, she looked like a thousand other teens and early twenties who also wanted to be different and stand out."

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

"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 fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job."

"Sometimes you fight what you are, and sometimes you give in to it. And some nights you just don't want to fight yourself anymore, so you pick someone else to fight."

"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."

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

"I am not a morning person."

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

"You can't save everybody. In fact, there are days when I think you can't save anyone. Each person has to save himself first, then you can move in and help. I have found this philosophy does not work during a gun battle, or a knife fight either. Outside of that it works just fine."

"When God ignores you, the devil starts looking good."

"Sticks and stones will break your bones, but failure will get you killed."