Slay (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #30)

by Laurell K. Hamilton

Sad but true that my family’s opinion of me still mattered that much. I’d really hoped I’d grown past the need for their approval since I was almost certainly not going to get it.

Let’s all be sociopaths together; it was the only sane reaction to my family dynamics.

I pushed the thought away because I couldn’t deal with the insight right now. One emotional crisis at a time.

“That if someone says they’re sorry, but keeps repeating the behavior, they aren’t really sorry.”

How do we ever see our parents as real people and not just parents?

“No, I’m not that old. I still match my packaging.”

Without you running through my heart the world is cold and dark.”