How’d you get to be so good at this?””I had a good teacher.””Better not have been Myrnin or I’ll have to kick his predatory ass.””I mean you, dummy.””Oh.

Don’t you feel shame? I thought scum like you could at least feel shame

Then you are doubly fortunate, to have it find you twice.” Parker smiled again, his eyes eerily piercing into mine. Parker and Danielle

He’s not doing anything he shouldn’t be doing, right?” “Like what?””Like hitting on you.””Ew. No, of course not. He doesn’t see me that way.” Michael shook his head and went back to his coffee.”What? You...

The city reeked of death, and the savages that resided within its imposing starkness existed in fear of their lives. They had been shocked by the recent bloody Whitechapel murders, as if starvation, disease, moral...

Niall had been able to mask the odor of fairy from Eric in the restaurant, but I saw from the flare of Eric’s nostrils that the intoxicating scent clung to me. Eric’s eyes closed in...

The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of...

Lestat: You’re very anxious to be out of these rooms, aren’t you? Why don’t we simply get into bed together? I don’t understand.David: You’re serious?Lestat: Of courseDavid: You do realize, that this is an absolutely...

Her eyes went so wide they nearly bulged. It was probably wrong of me to find that amusing. Or to want to take a photo of Nicholas with his fangs out and wearing a black...

I’ve won Satan’s lottery.

Lesson #456 of high school life: Never, EVER trust an alarm clock.

I’ll never turn her away, Clyde. She’s my mate. I’ll protect her till my dying breath. I’ll even swallow my pride and ask a favor as momentous as the one I just asked of a...

Everything I liked about him.

I’ll give you something to remember ME by… The back of my head!

Would women find vampires even sexier and more romantic if instead of fangs they had rose thorns? It’s thoughts like these I think of when digging in my garden, looking for my one true love...

If it was appropriate to judge a person based on her footwear – and it obviously was – I decided I liked her immediately.

As soon as I stepped onto the train, I knew why Shifters and Weres shunned the contraptions like E.coli avoided antibacterial agents on a petri dish. It smelled. Badly. A putrid mix of old man,...

Jerk! Don’t ever do that again! You nearly gave me a heart attack!” After her heart stopped fluttering for a moment, Katty drew her attention towards Nico and what he was wearing. Nico was lookin’...

Throughout the shadowy world of ghosts and demons there is no figure so terrible, no figure so dreaded and abhorred, yet dight with such fearful fascination, as the vampire, who is himself neither ghost nor...

I was alive back then. And all the Lore heard about the ruthless warlord brothers from Estonia. The general, the scholar, the enigma, and . . . the manwhore.

Mrs. Weslin was one of those women who had clearly had some work done. That or she had sold her soul to the devil and although that was probably a possibility, I was pretty sure...

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys.

Vampires have credit cards?””We’re undead, not Amish.

I don’t want to be your snack, your chew-toy, your fuck-buddy. Find a vampire to sink your fang into.

The voice came from the night all around him, in his head and out of it.”What do you want?’ it repeated.He wondered if he dared to turn and look, realised he did not.’Well? You come...

Now don’t jerk me around. This is the Midlands. There are no vampires here, and dressing up like one doesn’t make it so. You can’t even tell me how he’s got no marks on his...

I’m not the one going for a biology degree. I’m just a philosophy major who eats people.

Because you took too long. If you’d done that, say, three years ago, we wouldn’t have only had one kiss before we both get horribly mutilated.

Women, they were tricky business. A man had to step carefully lest he find himself in a pit of despair, longing after the one he wants and getting nothing but scorn in return. What was...

Abraham,” he said. “I’m pleased to see you alive, old friend.””And I to see you dead.

Hey!” Claire called after him, as she leaned her backpack against the wall.”No onions!””Your loss!””I meant for YOU! Not if you want to get kissed tonight!””Damn, girl. Harsh.

Sleep, Maya,” he murmured softly. “Sleep, my love, and I promise that I will come looking for you.

His dark blond hair was short and neatly trimmed around his ears. The blond highlighted it just enough to make one think it’d been kissed by the sun, but I knew better.Stopping a few feet...

‘Rose, come here.’ Christian grabbed my hand and guided me back down on the couch next to him.

I realized that the whole time I was holding this beautiful stranger in my arms, feeding on her, it felt like I was betraying Sofia.

When I thought of the ferocity and strength of the fairy race, and the fact that it took all I had to open the damn blister pack and extricate the water pistols, my chosen method...

Goddamn it, do it yourself. You’re five hundred years old and you can’t use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?

She grabbed his hair and pulled his mouth tighter against her lips. She wanted to possess and devour him.

She sounded like she really meant it, and I wondered if I actually was standing here on the sidewalk with her, and not still asleep in my room.

Si tuvieras que elegir entre la cordura, tu vida tal como la recuerdas, antes que la verdadera inestabilidad, ,qué elegirías como manera adecuada para vivir de un estudioso?

It was Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the television series, 1997-2003, not the lackluster movie that preceded it) that blazed the trail for Twilight and the slew of other paranormal romance novels that followed,...

I dunno. Zombies are kinda cool,” Jonathan said. “They just don’t give a dusty fart about anything.” — Bats 2015

I guess us folks in California are kind of straitlaced and old-fashioned.”Hahaha, I thought on the way downstairs. I never thought I’d say those words with a straight face…

Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but...

Rachel hiccupped. “What are you, Wordsworth, now?””Do you like Wordsworth?” Rees asked.”Not especially.””Then, no, I’m not.

Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers.

Jeez, you guys make it sound like I was on the brink of death or something. I just fainted.” (Sabina)

…and to this hour the image of Carmilla return to mind with ambiguous alterations–sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church; and often from a reverie I...

Not all vampires are created equal, you know.

Oh, but I was an idiot. Wanting to be whatever magic she waited for, when I had no magic – only darkness or death to give. But it seemed in that one instant, when she...