No tricks, Syn, ” Ryder growled from where he stood a few feet away.“Tricks are for kids, silly rabbit, ” I said

AMELIA: Thank you to everyone for keeping up with me while I run for the finish line.

AMELIA: Thank you for sticking it out with me no matter how crazy I get, because that’s what friends do. We’ve been through a lot together, so here’s to more shenanigans, and characters bickering!

AMELIA: To my daughter, if you ever date anyone like the men I write, I will kick your *ss up between your ears and you will walk sideways for a month, but I’ll still love you.

I told you that I would protect you. Even if you don't want me to, " he whispered, moving closer and pulling me against him. "Some things are worth protecting

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT PAGE: To my daughter, if you ever date anyone like the men I write, I will kick your *ss up between your ears and you will walk sideways for a month, but I’ll still love you.

Without passion, nobody can truly commit to anything and without optimism, positive outcomes become scarce.

Looking back, it's funny how the lighter family-friendly version of these classic Universal movie monsters that were satirized in The Munsters seduced me like a gateway drug into the genre.

Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.

Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.

She was gorgeous and fearless and I was in awe.

A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed.

I do not believe that a counterterrorism strategy all by itself, without a sufficient level of counterinsurgency, will work.

People who are reading my books, or who are thinking about it, have some general idea about the concept of strategy. They're better off than somebody that has none. So I would never say it's useless.

Global governance need not take a democratic form.

Amateurs go broke taking large losses, professionals go broke taking small profits.