Quotes About Conflict

I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I'm not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.

Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.

An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.

Neal stood, kicking free of the clinging curtain. I'll kill you. I drew the firestar and pointed it at him. I don't think so. She is pack now, Sylvie said. You fight one of us, and you fight all of us. Edward raised his eyebrows at me. What is going on, Anita? I think I've been adopted, I said.

Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.

When crime busting is easier than your personal life, something has gone seriously wrong.

Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.

What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?

Being a successful couple was learning what you were willing to compromise on, and what you weren't; learning when to stand your ground, and when to give it up; what was truly important enough to fight over, and what was just you being pissy. You learned each other's hot buttons, the places that hurt, or angered, when you pressed them. Love makes you learn where all the pitfalls are, and how to avoid them, or how to set them off.

He balled his hand into a fist. You are such a bitch. Woof, woof, I said.

Maybe you're not willing to give up a lover who's colder than you are.

What was I supposed to say?.....did I tell them the Master had the hots for me, so I'd probably be okay? -Anita

I should not have to flirt with someone while I'm trying to threaten someone else with a gun; it was too hard to do both.

Great. I didn't say thank you, because it seemed wrong. I wanted to call her a bitch and shoot her between the eyes, but then I would have had to shoot Enzo, too. And how would I explain that to the police? She was breaking no laws. Dammit.

murder takes presedence over watching my boyfriend strip -ID, Anita to Nathaniel

I'd have much rather gotten dragged into someone else's fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people's emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.

I thought we were the good guys," he said, and it had that note of a child who finally realizes that sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites, as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way, and it looks good, another way, and it's evil. Sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.

I don't want him hurt because he got out of hand with me. Yet you would have shot him. I shrugged. I never said I was consistent, just serious.

Even officers who don't approve of your lifestyle choices would still take you as backup over Kirkland, or most anyone else. They'd say how you're bad for shaking up with vampires and wereleopards, but in a firefight they'd take your vampire-loving, furry-fucking ass over most anyone else's.

His parting shot to me had been, I don't want to love someone who is more at home with the monsters than I am. What do you say to that? What can you say? Damned if I know. They say love conquers everything. They lie.

Edward: I don't know whether to put my fingers in my ears and go la-la-la or find more of your guards so we can take bets.

Remind me never to piss you off ... Are you as good at being a friend as you are an enemy?

He thought I was a cop and deliberately didn't call me officer or detective. I let it go. If I really had a professional title I'd have demanded it, but getting into an argument because he wouldn't call me detective when I wasn't one seemed counterproductive.

Edward leaned close and whispered in my ear so that Olaf would think he was whispering sweet nothings, but what he what he actually said, was, We aren't the good guys, Anita. We're the necessary guys.