They don’t call me Jackpot for nothing,” he joked.

I thought if you knew. you’d kill him.I nearly did. I nearly killed you too. The trouble with death is – his lips twisted – it’s so final.

He squeezed my shoulder and smiled at me.I realized that I hadn’t kissed him hello, I always kissed him hello. Of course, I was still covered in blood and other bodily fluids, and none of...

Nikolai had expected to have to fight the urge to torture the progeny of his father’s murderer, but he had never anticipated fighting the urge to fuck her.

In the center of the room Sarra the demon hung upside down by one leg, its arms bound behind its back, its suit scuffed-looking. Beneath it, crawling around an intricately scribed circle, a woman with...

Sweetheart, I’ll lift my kilt and show you what I’ve got between my thighs and if you still think it’s lit(tle) —

I had Japanese once. A business man I had run into in New York … but that’s not what he meant.

Ophelia was beating some poor underling for not knowing her arse from the sparse collection of cells between her ears.

That creature’s staying?’ It figured. Her daughter-in-law transforming into an animal? No problem. Having to take care of a cat? Crisis. (Sydney Sage-Ivashkov)

My fangs extended then, automatically, like her voice were a fang charmer, and I followed impulsively, thinking about blood.

Then by all means get your drink on.” Samuel chuckled.

I’m gonna kill him,” Eve said, or at least that was what it sounded like filtered through the pillow.Stake him right in the heart, shove garlic up his ass, and-and-“And what?” (Michael)When did you get...

You know what we call pedestrians in Morganville? Mobile bloodbanks.

I hate what’s become of the world. Most of the humans do. There’s so much violence and blood and meaningless death. It’s not even the normal kind of death where your heart stops beating and...

Así que somos dos bolas de discoteca andantes.

I thought you became vampires by being bitten? Dear me, no. Oh, we can turn people into vampires, it’s an easy technique, but what would be the point? When you eat… now, what is it...

Trees surrounded them from all sides, casting long inky shadows that would, at another time, have been scary. But there was no point in being scared of what might be lurking in the shadows when...

When he whispered my name, that’s when I knew- this was how death felt.

I hear nothing. I hear nothing, but what does it mean that I hear nothing? I walk in the cemeteries of this city at night and I hear nothing. I walk among mortals and sometimes...

We always have to go backward to move forward. Whether it’s to face our own missteps or reach the end of our lives with a final mistake… We always have to go back to pull...

Ray is going to fly you out and the plan is to meet up in two hours.”She sighed. “I despise Vamp Air, but I guess it can’t be helped. I can’t even think about the...

It’s kinda hard to get yourself into a good three-toweler when you got the dick of death.

Did you just mentally pistol whip that guy, with his own gun? Nice, Amber. I would have just killed him.

Elizabeth served herself to Vlad upon the Lazy Susan (Susan wasn’t lazy. She was actually dead.” — Bats 2015

I had been a happy normal wife and mother in Orange County until ten years ago, when I was attacked by an evil vampire… and turned into one myself. It’s made my life since gross...

Look upon me, Mistress. Watch as I wither!

My sister said she was tired of the blood diet and wants to go home. I guess you’ll have to trade your double-wide coffin in for a sleeker single

All vampires smoke. Smoking’s high on the list of Things You Take Up To Pass The Time.

Can’t you see, Amber? Losing you would be like a stake to my heart.

I had to wonder, though, if there’s something about a murderer, particularly a confident one, that gives him a certain charisma or charm that I, in particular, am susceptible to.I mean, there’s a reason more...

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...

MacMillian pinched the bridge of his nose. Conspiracy theories, secret societies… what the hell had he gotten himself into? What was next? Vampires? Werewolves?

I waited for her to nod before pacing while I bit my lip. That hurt, so I switched to biting my finger nail.

So every time I lose one of my shoes and my brother looks at me angrily thinking I’m trying to catch a prince with a lost shoe, or mistakenly cuts myself and the whole world...

Darius held Stark back from launching himself at Neferet, and Duantia spoke quickly into the rising tension. ‘Neferet, I think we can all agree that there are many unanswered questions about the tragedy that occured...

Feris was taller than the average man and his looks were sinister in the form of long dark hair and deep-set eyes. He had an untouchable, magnetic quality that consumed any beholder whose gaze fell...

I want to tell him I love him; I try to say the words I feel in my gut and my heart and every inch of me. But nothing comes out.

Be proud to act like a normal human being. Keep daylight hours, get a regular job, and mix in the company of people with a fixed sense of right and wrong.The Abstainer’s Handbook (second edition,...

I stay away from negative relationships. They are energy-sapping vampires. I can’t handle them.

Reluctantly, I pulled out my necklace and showed it to them.Samuel frowned. The little figure was stylized; I suppose he couldn’t tell what it was at first.”A dog?” asked Zee, staring at my necklace.”A lamb,”...

Stalin is dead! No school today…” was a chant to linger in my ears for years to come.

Here’s what vampires shouldn’t be: pallid detectives that drink Bloody Marys and work only at night; lovelorn southern gentlemen; anorexic teenage girls; boy-toys with big dewy eyes. What should they be? Killers, honey. Stone killers...

Oliver laughed – actually laughed.”I like this new Claire,” he said. “You should work her this hard all the time, Myrnin. She’s interesting when she’s forthright.”Claire, possessed by the spirit of Eve, shot him the...

He was a nice guy, middle-aged, a little tired, like most doctors usually seemed to be, but he just nodded and said, “Let me take a look at him. Shane?””I’m not dropping my pants,” Shane...

I’m so sorry I wasn’t here sooner, but you’ll have to forgive an old vampire for being a bit rusty in the dreamscape.

Nil Sine Magno Labore (“Nothing without great effort”) –Motto of Brooklyn College

You are blood of my blood and you will answer to me when I command.

When she first saw him, she took him for a ghost. His jet-black hair fluttered in the breeze as he walked, letting her see his eyes. They seemed haunted, lost in some way. He was...

Humans – a renewable resource.

But there was something in the air, a watchfulness laced with a charge of malice. The eyes observing us were invisible, but were observing us, nonetheless.