Bullet

Some moments are perfect, and then someone comes along and f*cks it up. Ain't it always the way.

Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.

When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.

It's not about winning, Haven. I'm not a prize to be won. I'm not the princess that needs rescuing from the dragon. I'm the prince and I kill my own monsters. You need to be ok with that. -Anita Blake

Love mattered, in the end. A house without love would always fall, maybe not today or tomorrow, but in the end without love nothing could endure.

I’d learned a long time ago that you can’t prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it’s the devil to prove you didn’t do something.

You may be a manipulative bastard sometimes, but you are our manipulative bastard.

Is it better to outmonster the monsters or to be quietly devoured?

When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.

Love is not about owning someone, but about loving them.

Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they’re real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.' - Chang Bibi to Anita

Then stop trying to throw logic at nightmares. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster. ~Bibiana to Anita

I laid my hand on top of theirs, and all I could think was, Is this how revolutions begin? Not with a proclamation or a riot, but with a few people in a room somewhere with their hands clasped and a purpose.

It means black kitten," I said with my pulse almost even again. Ares studied me. "And you're ok with them calling you their black kitten?" "They're wererats, Ares," I said. He frowned at me. "They're not calling me their little black rat. Think it through.

Nothing cuts deeper than when another person says exactly what you're afraid to say out loud.

Is this a private fight, or can anyone join?

It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli

It's good not to be the only girl in the fight for once.

I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.

A certain type of man, when he loves for the first time, his love is not really love, it is possession. Possessions don't have rights or feelings; they are something to owned and controlled. He had spent more than a year trying to do just that, and failing.

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.

I tended to be hard on the egos of a certain kind of men. The ones who normally swept women off their feet had never moved me much, because I'd always felt that if they swept me off my feet they'd practiced on a lot of women before me, and would practice more with women after me. I'd rarely been wrong on that. ~Anita Blake

So many of us had been armed that there were holsters and weapons scattered among the passed-out bodies like mercenary prizes in a fleshy Cracker Jack box.

she was just that shiver that makes you walk faster at night. You don't know why you do it, but some part of you remembers that the dark is never really empty. ~Anita

I so wanted out of this conversation, but it was like a car accident: Once you started spinning, you could only wait and see what you hit.

It was as if the power and loneliness of the vampires' world had combined with the group oriented puppy-pile world of the shapeshifters and made something new.

...just because it's childish and unfair doesn't mean it isn't the way I felt. Stupid, but true.

Too much fear will paralyze you, but too little fear will make you careless.