Time is truly apathetic to the many to whom a little empathy would mean so much.~”Disarming (Reign of Blood #2)

Our very existence refuses your laws andyour science, your religions and yourphilosophies.

Is it wrong to protect your heart?”- Marc (Marked Book #1) page 130

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note,” he said, “but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

He knew…there was no redemption for the damned.

I assume you are the sort of person who would go backstage after the opera in hopes of hearing the prima donna crying on the telephone, or walking in on the baritone fellating the basso...

It’s a vampire cabal and I’m feeling like the odd human out…or lunch.

We are also creatures of romance. Books love to portray us as the mysterious visitor in the night that you invite into your bedroom and then your bed.

What do you mean?”You don’t ask me to go inside because it’s cold. You just want to make it easier for me to be where I want to stand.

I pulled out my mp3 player and stuck the buds in, and letting out a big breath, I started to scroll through my music for something appropriate to kill by. John Tesh, it is.

How do you know me, girl?” He asked, his voice caked with venom. There was movement from the curtains and the throng of vamps seemed to cry out as one, in a sound of pure...

I can still feel my legs, thanks for asking. My back’s not even hurt that badly. Only as though I was just hit by a train.

I hate it when I go into a Snack Shack and they’re out of Blue Ice. The other slushie flavors taste like cheap candy.

Do I feel ancient to you now?” he murmered. “Too different from the person you loved before you knew this?” Her eyes were already glowing green, and her full lips parted. “No, you don’t feel...

…, It’d taken her several seconds to react to the sight of them together. She’d been almost hypnotized by the scene as Lothaire drank. Chase’s masculine face had been tense, his gray eyes focused on...

One woman against two bloodsuckers. This I got to see.

I knew what was like to finally be seduced by the thing you hunted. Mine just happened to be a more traditional seduction. Okay, at least I was still among the living.

And a scoundrel would have joined you.”– Kit Marlowe to the witch Gillian (shortly before joining her in the tub!)

Very touching,” said a voice from the stairway. “Do you want me to imitate a violin?” – Damon

Aunt Jettie: “yes, i’m wandering the earth seeking revenge on ben & jerry for giving me the fat a$$ and coronary & I give out love advice to the tragically lonely.”jane: “Is that an ironic...

The horror of what I saw chilled me to the bone. Blood glistened on my friend’s lips. He knelt down and whispered something I could not hear. Star then stopped attacking, and to lay down...

I will stay and Michael can go.” Her voice did not waiver as she pronounced her own death sentence. No matter what happened to her, she knew she couldn’t let him die.

Today I asked Chloe to be my girlfriend,and she agreed. I sank my teeth into her neck and drank from her jugular in the library at lunchtime. She’s agreed to join me as a vampire...

There’s only so many times you can fight before the only person you fight for is yourself.

He started to touch the mechanism under the keyboard, then pulled his hand back with a snap.”Ah,” he said. “Must deactivate the security….Turn around, please.””What?””Turn around, Claire. It’s a secure password!””You have GOT to be...

Don’t know. Never let a wolf near my neck.” He grinned and gave me a quick hug. “I love you, Essie. Before you came into my life, I had considered ending myself. Three hundred years...

drenching his shirt with saltwater

He smelled like a sultry summer storm—cool, refreshing rain, sweltering, hot wind, and charged, electric thunder—all rolled up into one extremely enticing vampire being.

The day stared back an empty gray, with not a speck of white to give character to the lifeless sky.

Eternity is a long time to spend alone, without others of your kind.

I don’t have a reason to lie to you. Not now.’ Jace’s gaze remained steady. ‘And quit baring your fangs at me. It’s making me nervous.”Good,’ Simon said. ‘If you want to know why it’s...

She’s kind of a, well, you know, a B with an itch.

Can you be a little more careful where you let body parts fall?”- Faith, Witch Devotions

I stood up in a flash and flushed a light shade of furious.

Cora, you can turn around now. Your virgin eyes won’t be offended any longer.

I hope you enjoyed your visit. You never know. You may want to join forever.

It was only that night, dreaming forbidden dreams of Laurence and the clear attraction he had already displayed towards her, that the dream was disturbed. She woke to pain, her eyes and mouth flashing open...

I must have roamed dementedly about for a time in the streets. When I at last got back to my own place, Faustine was again there ahead of me, coiled torpid in the bed like...

Then Chameroy spoke. ‘You always put the blame on opium, but as I see it the case of Freneuse is much more complicated. Him, an invalid? No – a character from the tales of Hoffmann!...

She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin’s so pale she looks like she’s just broken dawn.

You need me, Kane. Maybe even more than I need you.

We’ve peered into the deepest parts to see beyond what lies on the surface.

That’s the last time I put you in charge of the tequila when we’re making margaritas

Katie purred in pleasure as she licked the beating vein in Jared’s neck.

Silas consumed only one food, and it was not bananas.

A witch, a vampire, and a pixy walk into a bar, I thought as I led the way into the Squirrel’s End. It was early, and the sun had yet to set when the door...

He knew how hot those rumbly-grumbly, gravel-voiced noises made her: hotter than two rats wrestling in a wool sock…only not as scratchy. Or as smelly. Probably less squeaky, too. But she had to be strong....

Also, vampires don’t eat food. You never get to eat chocolate again. Ever. I’d rather die.

Sweat isn’t a bad thing,” he said, leaning his head against the wall thoughtfully. “Some of the best things in life happen while your sweating. Yeah, if you get too much of it and it...

Only a sentimental being would care about such everyday things—things used and discarded by the humans of their respective eras without thought, yet kept and preserved by an immortal who never forgot them. An immortal...