Quotes from book

Guilty Pleasures

“The ratman froze, staring at me. "Why are you laughing?" His voice held just a hint of unease. Good.
I was hoping that the vampires would come for me soon and save me. You've got to admit that's funny.”

“You don't smoke do you?"
"No, why?"
"They're afraid of fire."
"Great, we're going to be eaten alive because neither of us smokes."
I almost laughed. He sounded so thoroughly disgusted…”

“Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.”

“Nothing is more appealing than a handsome man who is also uncertain of himself.”

“Everything I needed was in my car, even the chickens”

“It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.”

“Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.”

“I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it.”

“Vampires are people too!”

“I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.”

“I told her why we are here. I told you wouldn't hurt Jack."
"The coffin?"
I smiled. I couldn't help it. He was a 'jack in a box.”

“You awful hard to kill, Anita.'

'There's a first time, Luther, and that's all it takes.”

“Methinks we have a clue. Be still, my heart.”

“Pity is an emotion that can get you killed. The only thing more dangerous is blind hate, and maybe love.”

“Violence has to become a part of your thinking. It makes you cautious, suspicious as hell, and lengthens your life expectancy.”

“An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.”

“Never criticize, unless you can do a better job.”