“The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian.”

“Animators Inc., where our motto was Where the Living Raise the Dead for a Killing.”

“There are only two kinds of vampire hunters: good ones and dead ones.”

“Because all bad little vampires see me in the end”

“Raising the dead was easy; love was hard.”

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

“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.”