#anita-blake

"There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles."

"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."

"Can the sarcasm,' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned."

"Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that?"

"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."

"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"

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

"I'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how wonderful it was."

"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."

"Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will."

"The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower--Peter"

"I used to think I knew what was right and what was wrong, and who the good guys are, and who the bad guys are. Then the world got very gray, and I didn't know anything for a long time"