“The villains were always ugly in books and movies. Necessarily so, it seemed. Because if they were attractiveif their looks matched their charm and their cunningthey wouldn't only be dang”

“I want to be your last thought at night, and your first taste at dawn.”

“Conquest was not satisfying if it began with a surrender.”

“You are fifty different kinds of twisted.""Only fifty? Val, you wound me.”

“It takes many sheep to satisfy one wolf.”

“There was something delightfully intimate about the relationship between predator and prey.”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”

“Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.”

“Dont cry and dont rage. Understand.”

“The only way to heal yourself was to understand. Understand the love or the hate or the cowardice, or the impulsiveness, the lack of will of the one who hurt you--the circumstances that twisted the...”

“Man has created technology. Technology has created man”

“I'm not interested in whether you've stood with the great”

“I am not interested in whether you've stood with the great”