“Anita: My life works for me right now, but it wouldn't work for a child.
Ronnie: Why, because you don't have a husband?
Anita: No, because people try to kill me on a semiregular basis.”

Source: Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Incubus Dreams (2004), p. 198

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