“You ask yourself "What is love? Am I in love?", when what you should be asking is, "What is not love?", ma petite. What is it that this man does for you that is not done out of love?”

—  Laurell K. Hamilton

Vampire Jean-Claude, to Anita; p. 176
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Incubus Dreams (2004)

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