Larisa Atkinson

“Sometimes it takes more courage to know when to retreat than to keep fighting.”
― Richelle Mead, Succubus Heat

“There’s something about the way blood tastes in New York City. It’s unlike any blood anywhere else in the world.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, The Last American Vampire

“I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where you feel bad, and from bad places. It can be a safe place you go, like going on holiday, and it can be somewhere that, while you’ve escaped, actually teaches you things you need to know when you go back, that gives you knowledge and armour and tools to change the bad place you were in.

So no, they’re not escapist. They’re escape.”
― Neil Gaiman

“A man can be whip smart and witty and caught up in the gale of life, chatting up roomfuls of people and making them laugh till their teeth damn near fall out, and at the same time, he can be the world’s loneliest, most miserable creature.”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, The Last American Vampire