It looked to me like a vamp version of a pissing contest. Men will be boys.

Admitting that Katie had taken too much blood was on par with saying an adult human had pooped their pants or eaten their own boogers!

You don't have to shout from the mountaintops. Sometimes power comes in a soft, calm, compassionate way, like a quiet warrior.

Vamps who are dying, or think they are, give a piercing, eardrum-bursting shriek, like the love child of a screech owl and a mountain lion on crystal meth, amplified like a seventies rock band.

Alarm stole over me on little kitten feet.

Walk softly and carry a big stick. Or stomp loudly and carry enough firepower to start a small war. Whatever worked

I figured even the most jaded and cynical inhabitant might report a bloody girl in a party dress carrying a severed head by its hair.

My yoga practice was and will always be a spiritual experience. I can honestly say, "Yoga delivered me back to GOD!"

Chicken, yeah, that's me. I'd rather fight an old rogue-vamp in my underwear, with my bare hands, than deal with relationship problems.

But nothing in life was set in stone and nothing in life is promised us. Not happiness, not joy, not love. Everything was variable and mutable and inconstant.

Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs.

Success doesn’t happen by accident. You make it happen. But before you reach that road to victory, some things about yourself have to be changed.

Finding your passion is the key to your success. - Tracy Kauffman

That man would have chipped away at your heart bit by bit until there was nothing left. It may have been bruised, but at least it's whole.

The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.

The worst diets are ones that restrict your calories too much and try to trick your body. You have no energy, and it's ridiculous.

Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.

Take a note: it usually works better if you wait until I do something stupid before getting mad at me.

Most marriages I've known, and I've been married a long time and I've known a lot of married people - you wonder how they got together. Often they seem to be opposites.

Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.

The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart. And now my soul was crying.