“I know who and what I am. I am the Executioner, and I don't date vampires. I kill them.”

“I, Anita Blake, scourge of the undead-the human with more vampire kills than any other vampire executioner in the country-was dating a vampire. It was poetically ironic.”

“I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I’m not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.”

“I am the Executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I’m the one that you get to see. Once.”

“His parting shot to me had been, "I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am." What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie.”

“Jesus, are all vampires over two hundred perverts?""I am over two hundred," Jean-Claude said."I rest my case.”

“either you're a whore, or you think I am. The first I'm willing to believe. The second I know isn't true.”