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
Still it might be nice, once in a while, not to have to choose between evils. Just once, couldn't I choose the lesser good?
I couldn't think of anything helpful to say, so I resorted to humor, my shield of last resort. 'Just please tell me they don't have a dog and a picket fence.'He smiled. 'No fence, but a dog, two dogs....
Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies.
No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.
Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six. Funny how pha...
I hoped he was right, but 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 atten...
I had to practice this line to use with people who come to signings and things: ‘I’m sorry, I don’t have sex with strangers.’
when you live forever and don't age, it gives you time to hope
Lately, when I didn't have room to bitch, I didn't. Maturity, at last.
I talk to myself every once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it. I
His eyes widened just a bit, his lips flexed. I realized he was trying not to laugh. I hate it when people find my threats amusing.
He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll be just as dead.
Grimes believed in what he did, with no doubts. Though he was older than me by over a decade, I suddenly felt old. Some things mark your soul, not in years but in blood and pain and selling off parts...
Friends don't count the cost of favors.
I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I’m not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.
I could only handle a zillion problems at a time. A zillion and one was beyond me.
He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.
If you don't feel loved maybe the outward trappings like weddings and wedding rings become important? (Page 567)
I didn't want to pick at Micah and me until we unraveled. I wanted to leave it alone and enjoy it. I just didn't know how to do that.