You may be a manipulative bastard sometimes, but you are our manipulative bastard.
You lie like butter wouldn't melt in your mouth, Edward.He smiled. I don't lie to you.Really, I said.The smile became a grin. Okay, not most of the time, anymore. His face sobered. I'm not lying now.
You don't smoke do you?No, why?They're afraid of fire.Great, we're going to be eaten alive because neither of us smokes. I almost laughed. He sounded so thoroughly disgusted…
Who hit you?Why, so you can go beat him up? One of the fringe benefits of being my human servant is my protection.I don't need your protection, Jean-Claude.He hurt you.And I shoved a gun into his groi...
When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. N...
What are you afraid of?' I asked.'Airplanes, guns, large predators, ad master vampires.
We’d put a big sign over our territory saying, Nothing here is worth dying over, but if you insist, we will fucking kill you.
Theresa strode over to us in a swish of cloth. Enough of this, animator. He can't do it, so he pays the price. Either leave now, or join us at our...feast.Are you having rare Who-roast-beast? I asked....
There are some stories, some memories, that if you tell them after dark, they seem to gain weight, substance, as if there are things listening, waiting to hear themselves spoken of again. Words have p...
The ratman froze, staring at me. Why are you laughing? His voice held just a hint of unease. Good. I was hoping that the vampires would come for me soon and save me. You've got to admit that's funny.
That body did not bleed while I carried it, Nesbit. You touch it but a moment, and it bleeds.No, I didn't kill her.... The dead always know who to blame. They are very good that way.
Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.
Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.
Sometimes it's not the light in a person you fall in love with, but the dark. Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sou...
Somehow I think Trophy Wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But... maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometim...
See if he's alive. It was a messy job, and I'd have done it myself, but I trusted me more than Larry to keep the vampires away. He'd saved me once tonight, but I still trusted me more.
One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer...
Once, the belief that his love would heal all the wounds, and finally make me feel safe, had been true. True, and a lie. Love is real, and false, even true love. Because love alone cannot keep you saf...
Oh, ma petite, you are growing gargantuan.I looked at him and it was not a friendly look. Never tease a woman about her weight, Jean-Claude. At least not an American twentieth-century one.He Spread hi...
Neal stood, kicking free of the clinging curtain. I'll kill you. I drew the firestar and pointed it at him.I don't think so.She is pack now, Sylvie said. You fight one of us, and you fight all of us....