Magic, if that was the right word, often rises and falls on your own belief in your abilities. I've seen very powerful people completely crippled by self-doubt.
If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.
I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.
I'd worked my share of serial killer cases, but none of the killers had ever mailed me a human head. That was new.
I turned down Halloween parties every year, where people wanted zombies raised at the stroke of midnight or some such nonsense. The scarier my reputation got, the more people wanted me to come be scar...
I have lived for over three hundred years. In that time, the ideal of beauty has changed many times. Large breasts, small, thin, curved, tall, short, they have all been the height of beauty at one tim...
I could probably have made the head shot from the railing, but with an unfamiliar gun, it was too risky. I didn't want to accidentally shoot the woman in the head. Killing the hostage is always frowne...
When in doubt, shut the fuck up.
There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.
Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly.
People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes your soul under the weight of mo...
One serial killer sends me a human head in a box, and I get all spooked; Go figure.
My boyfriends are all more romantic than I am, and so are my lovers.
I’ll take him to the hospital Bernardo said but what do we put on the paperwork Tell them it was a lover’s quarrel Olaf said. Over my dead body I said. Eventually he said. Don’t be a sick fuck Ol...
If I was truly as brave as I thought I was, I'd have let him go. But I loved him, and I wasn't that brave.
I'm pro-choice because I've never been a fourteen-year-old incest victim pregnant by her father, or a woman who's going to die if her pregnancy continues, or even a teenager who made a mistake or a ra...
I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.
I hesitated on getting my backup gun and putting it in my purse, but didn't. My purse, like all purses, seems to have a travelling black hole in it. I'd never get the gun out in time if I really neede...
I have lived with others more powerful than I in Belle Morte’s line for centuries, Anita. I, more than most, know just how much you must fight every night of your existence not to be consumed by their...
He held Saraid the rest of the way home, and in a way she held him right back, because sometimes and especially for a man, being able to be someone’s big strong shoulder to cry on helps you not need t...