Sherrilyn Kenyon

Growing up, books were my lifeline, and I owe a debt to those writers that can never be repaid. They saved my sanity and gave me a world I could escape to. If I can pay that forward to another person, that's all I ask.

Anyone can battle for pride, power, vanity, greed, or hate, but war should always be approached with an equal measure of wisdom and strength. It's not just enough to know when to fight, but to know when to lay down the sword and negotiate. Not everything in the world is worth fighting for.

Every person you meet is waging his or her own war against a callous universe that is plotting against them.

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with.