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.

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...

She leaned forward and whispered sensuously in his ear, ‘I am Lilith and you are mine now – forever.

Just because we don’t understand why they’d cover up something doesn’t mean they aren’t,” Bobby said, and we both turned to look at him. “Now you just sound paranoid,” I said. “Just because you’re paranoid...

Quant au sang, ah, le sang, le sujet entier me fascine. En plus, j’aime ça, quand ça coule tout chaud et que je suis assoiffée. Et je le suis souvent.

You guys just aren’t fair, between your vampire pheromones and your gorgeous good looks, we humans just don’t stand a chance.

Were they displayed like this?” —Bats 2015

After a moment, Wrath turned to John. “This is Lassiter, the fallen angel. One of the last times he was here on earth, there was a plague in central Europe-“”Okay, that was so not my...

I’m sorry,’ she said to each of the dead as she unzipped and unfastened their things, ‘I’m sorry Courtney.I’m sorry Marcus. I’m sorry Rachel.I’m sorry Jon. I’m sorry I’m alive and you’re dead. I’m sorry...

I have learned one lesson in all this and I will share it knowing it will do no one any good. The lesson is this: “There are none more complicit in one’s undoing than one’s...

Not all the monsters have fangs.

Come on, it is a guest bedroom! If you want your guests to feel at home, they should be allowed to do whatever they do at home!

A human hires a hit man to kill his cousin for money, boring. That same hit man botches the job twice, funny. Then the desperate hit man sends a ghoul after the girl to finish...

With Stefan, the line between good and evil, right and wrong, becomes increasingly blurred.

I’m going to fight like a queen bitch to stay alive. I give you my word.

How I’d managed to sit still for the majority of the conversation and be controlled, without ripping my knickers off, throwing them over my head and swinging my bra around my fingers in a come...

I would change the way humans interpreted the word vampire, forever.

I was either still dreaming or I had entered an alternate reality where I was a flippin’ insane person. I doubted I had entered an alternate reality and a quick slap to my own face...

There he was, her confidant—strong, solid, and unbending.

Yuki (in a standoff with Zero): We’re going to stay like this until vol. 10? Why…don’t we sit down…Zero?Zero: I can’t. If I sit down, I won’t be able to get up again. (I’ve reached...

I haven’t had a lot of good, soft things in my life,” he said against my forehead. “Not since my family sent me away. Apart from being your sire and feeling that pull to you,...

Want to try it out?

You did it, Taylor! You did it! You got yourself a backstage pass!” He was screaming in her ear.”I did?” Great. Now the last thing on earth she wanted to do was face that Brody...

if it were not for the fact that only children react so wondrously juvenile when faced with such a choice! You bargain my life over a show of bravado! And where is your brother, Christian?!...

Where’s the victory without opposition?–Joel

Let’s say she’s a friend of the family.

Then again, in some of our meetings, the Upyri bring cocktails, shaking both cocks and tails. Bitches. You can’t live with them, they can’t live without you. It’s a lose-lose situation.

Silence wrapped around us as time itself held its breath, quietly coaxing us to that secret place of sighs and whispers where we might just lose ourselves completely and truly find each other.”- William RolfeA...

I believe he’s been asked to testify today,” I told Lennox, who’d continued to track Truman’s progress through the room. “He’s a member of the historical undead, Truman Capote, the author. He wrote Breakfast at...

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.