I didn’t know what to say to that. I just stared at him. He was right, of course he was right, but… I can’t do my job like this. No, he said, you can’t. Then suddenly I felt the first tear slide down...
I could have just said I'm good at my job, but I didn't. Didn't want the police thinking I was holding out information when I wasn't. I've got one advantage over a normal homicide detective, I expect...
I called her Mrs. Bennington at her insistence. When I'd referred to her as Ms. Bennington, she'd nearly bitten my head off. She was not one of your liberated women. She liked being a wife and mother....
I am the Executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I’m the one that you get to see. Once.
How could you love someone and not want them to be happy?
He's not going to shoot us in the back by accident, is he? Deputy Coltrain asked.I smiled, not sweetly. He promised not to.
He whispered, More than life, more than honor, I love thee. What do you say when a man whose entire existence had been his honor offers to give it up for you? You say the only thing you can. More than...
He rewarded me with one of those brilliant smiles. If I had been less professional, it might have melted me into my socks. There was a tinge of evil to it, a lot of sex, but under that was a little bo...
He looked less handsome without the smile and glow in his eyes, but he also seemed more real. Being real will get me into trouble faster than any amount of charm.
Everyone else goes home for nostalgia, and happy memories. I end up feeling like I never fit in with the family as a child, and being older hasn’t changed that.
But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a good instinct for survival.
Believe this, Bitch.
Asher was a vampire. How much more dangerous could he be with a gun? But I couldn't do it. Let me test my understanding. Is Asher going to ride in the car with us to the meeting?I must to give you dir...
And the moment you care that much, a man has you. He owns a little piece of your soul, and he can beat you to death with it.
A little boy who's discovered the monster under the bed is actually real, and it's screwing Mommy.
A flower may be beautiful all on its own, but a person is never truly beautiful unless someone's eyes show him that he is beautiful.
Please, Anita, go home, and don’t freak. Just go home, and be happy. Be happy, and let everyone around you be happy. Is that so hard?When Jason said it like that, it didn’t seem hard. In fact, it seem...
Either you're a whore, or you think I am. The first I'm willing to believe. The second I know isn't true.
Being physically intimidating didn't keep you from getting your feelings hurt. Everyone's heart is the same size.
A pink taffeta evening gown. It looked like it had run away from a junior highprom...The dress looked like a petunia on steroids to me.