“Every time I thought I understood the rules, they changed. Why was it that the damn rules always seemed to change for the worse?”

“I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you're at their mercy; it's a rule.”

“What did they think I was going to do, steal a body? If I wanted to, I could empty the damn place and get every corpse to play follow the leader. Perhaps that was why I needed watching. Perhaps." --Anita Blake”

“I looked up at Ellen and her not-glowing pentagram. "Harm none is the rule, Ellen: bad witch, no cookie.”

“He wanted you dead, now he doesn't, I don't know why. Chimera's crazy, he doesn't need a reason to change his mind.”

“I have lived for over three hundred years. In that time, the ideal of beauty has changed many times. Large breasts, small, thin, curved, tall, short, they have all been the height of beauty at one time or another. But in all that time, ma petite, I have never desired anyone the way I desire you."- Jean-Claude”

“The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower--Peter”