Important safety tip – never look a vampire in the eye.
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 isn’t evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don’t always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.
I’d have much rather gotten dragged into someone else’s fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people’s emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.
I’m not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I’m afraid of.
His parting shot to me had been, “I don’t want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am.” What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie.
Silk didn’t care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I’d earned my right to be paranoid.
He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.
Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn’t.
Twenty-three stories up and all I could see out the windows was grey smog. They could call it the City of the Angels if they wanted to, but if there were angels out there, they had to be flying blind.
What does it mean when the monsters are so afraid of you that you make them cry? That maybe monster depends on which end of the gun your on, or that I was just that good at my job.
That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both.
If they cheat, can I shoot them?
Therapy can get you only so far with exorcising your childhood nightmares; after that it’s willpower, and you, and people you can trust to hold your hand along the way.
He gave a small nod, and I smiled back, and that was it. He understood that I’d understood that he’d understood. It took us one sentence, two looks, and a nod – with another woman it would have been at least five minutes of out-loud talking. Lucky for me I spoke fluent guy.
I’d made sure I knew his name. You shouldn’t ask people to die for you if you don’t at least know their name.
I kissed him on the cheek and left to find Bobby Lee. Him, I trusted to be in the line of fire. But it was more than that: I wasn’t sleeping with bobby Lee. I didn’t love him. Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.
My boyfriends are all more romantic than I am, and so are my lovers.
Zerbrowski said, “Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.” It took me a second to realize that he had just quoted Star Wars to me. It made me smile, and in that moment I loved him, just for that.
Because all bad little vampires see me in the end.
Now that’s an Okay that really means Okay, not that Okay that women use that means everything but Okay.