What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice

I am not a morning person.

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does

Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.

Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail

The best lies are always at least partially true.

Stand strong in your value. That starts by knowing your value.

Women often seemed to leave things unsaid, and in his limited experience it was what they did not say that proved the most trouble.

This machine kills fascists.

I had never seen anyone fight and I had never been taught to defend myself. But I knew hurt and never wondered that day what it was I had to do if I didn't want to be hurt again.

You bruised my ego, you see, and there’s just not enough money in the world to soothe my ego when it gets bruised

Emily was feeling the elation of conscientious hosts when they can temporarily escape a ubiquitous houseguest.

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.

Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented.

I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.

Love For All; Hatred for None