"... I'd been worried I'd fail the wereleopards. I thought failure meant them dying, or getting hurt. What I realized suddenly was that the true failure would have been if I hadn't given a damn. You can bandage a wound, set a broken bone, but not caring ... you can't cure that, and you can't recover from it," Anita Blake. (Laurell K. Hamilton, Narcissus in Chains, pg. 214)
"Asher, Jean-Claude and I have an understanding. I guess, you could say we're dating. You wouldn't think dating two men simultaneously would be a first with me, but two men on the exact same date at the exact same time - that's new," Anita Blake. (Laurell K. Hamilton, Cerulean Sins, pg. 404)