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...

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

Pity…

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...

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

Not all vampires are created equal, you know.

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.

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

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

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...

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

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...