That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both
People go away and they don't come back.
Vampires are people too!
If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die.
Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.
Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.
We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it.
Love, whether it's friendship or more, is like a cup. It fills up drop by drop, until one last drop and the cup is full. The liquid hangs there almost above the rim, hangs there on surface tension alone and you know that one more drop and it will spill over.
You cannot die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.
I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control?
When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.
The federal government has never been known for its sense of humor.
Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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.
Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.
She stared up at me, and there was something in her eyes, something that said we finally had an understanding. She was afraid of me, and sometimes that’s the best you can do with people. I’d tried kindness. I’d tried friendship. I’d tried respect. But when all else fails, fear will do the job.
I sipped my own coffee, heavy on the sugar and cream, trying to make up for the late work the night before. Caffeine and sugar, the two basic food groups.
A girl could never have too much jewelry or too much weaponry.
That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.
Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others
I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print
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 am the Executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I’m the one that you get to see. Once.
A little boy who's discovered the monster under the bed is actually real, and it's screwing Mommy.
Death, jewelry, or magic; it sounded like Valentine's Day.
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