“What do you do when Mom leaves you alone like this? (Kat)
I write romance novels. (Acheron)”

“Do you want my input or is this just an angry tirade you need to vent? (Acheron)
Both! (Kat)
Okay, you rant and I’ll add my comments at the end. (Acheron)”

“Seminaked men!” Jacky trilled.
“With swords,” Kat purred. “It is a romance novel!”

“So what do you do? Really? (Kat)
Nothing. Really. It’s boring as hell. Artemis won’t allow me to bring anything here with me. No guitar. No Cartoon Network. Occasionally, I sneak a book in just to watch her wig out when she finds it. (Acheron)”

“If you leave here, War can find you again. What are you going to do if that happens? (Tory)
Leave bloodstains on his best shirt. (Acheron)”

“What do you want, Acheron? (Artemis)
You know what I want. After all I’m the top of the Food Chain and you…you’re the Food. (Acheron)”

“Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.”

“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”

“When you screw up someone’s life, the least you can do is leave the person alone.”

“To write a novel, you begin with what you can see and then you add what came before and what came after.

… You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.”