I’ve read about this in books, imagined it in my mind countless times since I’ve been here, but to actually witness it is something entirely different. I thought I was prepared, but nothing—no amount of...

Maybe I had been making a greater monster of him than he really was, or maybe I was still under his influence, for I was certain that he wanted me to believe he was no...

I’d go to hell and back and cut off the devil’s head myself to save you.

I’m not asking for your forgiveness. I have done no wrong according to my kind. I never meant to turn you. I just wanted to have a little fun with you before they took you...

Pity…

If I were pressed, I would admit that she was beautiful, in a dead bride sort of way.

A lot of things should have been, Zigmund, but they aren’t. Are you going to be miserable about the things you cannot change, or do something about the things you can?

She is so tiresome. ‘Am I a vampire, am I a wolf, am I a vampire, am I a wolf, I cannot decide, so I’ll be both!

His character is like an emerald—multifaceted and enhanced by inclusions.

Because, my dear Eric, I have tasted the secret knowledge. I know how much to say and when to pull back. I know what to see and not see. And now that I have become...

Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldn’t understand why, since she had very little character left to defend.

How does one go on after doing such unspeakable things? It’sall rather simple, really,” he continued, speaking in someone else’s voice. “Say to yourself, ‘What things?’ And it becomes clear…you are blameless. They brought it...

He was mocking me. I could see his mouth beginning to lift in a maddening smirk, a smile that was half sardonic and half secretive, as if the fate of the world depended on the...

Thirteen years of friendship had bonded us together more thoroughly than if we had been born of the same mother. Even at this late stage, I was unwilling to let him go.

Stefan needed me. Ha! Stefan needed me, as what? His next meal?

Death stalked toward us on padded feet. And it was not alone.

Not all vampires are created equal, you know.

I had lied to myself from the very beginning, deceived myself into believing that I was being fanciful and overly imaginative. Surely such monstrosities only existed in nightmares? Yet I had lived through a nightmare...

She rounded on me with such ferocity that for a moment I didn’t recognize her. A flash of fangs, a dark gleam in her blacker-than-night eyes. It was the most vampiric I’d ever seen her.

When it comes down to it, if they knew the truth, no one would want to live on this earth forever.

A decision made during a moment of weakness can ruin your life. To date, I had made three.