In order to remain undead, I must steal the life force of someone whose fate matters less to me than my own.’ I’ve always supposed that Wall Street traders utter essentially the same sentence.

Myrnin turned away to pick up his Ben Franklin spectacles, balanced them on his nose, and looked over them to say, “Don’t do drugs. I feel I ought to say that.

She was almost at the top of the steps, and Shane was right behind her, when she heard Myrnin say, in a quiet voice that was like the old Myrnin, the one she actually liked,...

They told of dripping stone walls in uninhabited castles and of ivy-clad monastery ruins by moonlight, of locked inner rooms and secret dungeons, dank charnel houses and overgrown graveyards, of footsteps creaking upon staircases and...

This is beautiful.” Eugenie ran her fingers along a massive mahogany sideboard, on the top of which rested a red velvet sash with fine embroidery on it and, on top of the sash, a silver...

‘Nope, not Debby Demint!’ His lips curved up while his eyes sparkled with amusement. ‘You haven’t even seen her. All the guys make fools of themselves over her.’ ‘There’s only one who I desire to...

And I honestly believe that I could never love another woman for the rest of my life. For the first time in the past five hundred years, I am sincerely thankful for my immortality, because...

Vampires were myths, childhood stories– as were werewolves, mermaids and dragons. I believed none of it.

Isabelle!” he called again. “Let down your raven hair!'”Oh my God,” Clary muttered. “There was something in that blood Raphael gave you, wasn’t there? I’m going to kill him.

Sorcha took the elevator down to the basement of the fashion house. She glanced at her stunningly beautiful reflection in the mirror and smiled to herself. How fortunate she was to be a vampire –...

Vampires love to gossip. They live for drama…

…turning your ankle hurts like hell, even if you’re a superhero.

Getting up from the bed, Dominick approaches me at a slow predatory pace. Once again, I cannot move my feet.

I’m coming, you impatient old coot! Keep your panties on!”-Skye yelling back to Hagan.

Grrrrowpt.” said dead Penelope. Dead Huthbert nodded, and hugged her. She moved his dusty hand from her dusty ass.” — BATS 2015

That’s you,” Wrath said. You shall be called the Black Dagger warrior Dhestroyer, descended of Wrath son of Wrath.””But you’ll always be Butch to us,” Rhage cut in. “As well as hard-ass. Smart-ass. Royal pain...

You said you were allowed to lose it,’ some part of her reminded herself. ‘Not yet, not yet.

He used to call vampires “the breathing ghosts”- for, as he put it, we existed in a kind of limbo-land between the living and the dead. We breathed, but we were not alive. We flitted...

But sometimes a shattered view is the only way to see truth.

…how crazy things have to get before I ended up drooling all over a strait jacket with my name on it at Happyville Manor.

All right, you got that out of your system. Can I get back in the boat without you striking me again? Or should I stay out here enjoying the marine life?””Why don’t you swim around...

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

Roller skating disco lover turns FBI crime scene investigator. I think there’s a book waiting to be written for you.

Why I felt the need to always disobey everyone around me was beyond me. But I guess being sixteen years old made me susceptible to bouts of irrational behaviour and the occasional notion that I...

Vampires used to be the Dracula types, but in the last ten years most of them have become weak, brooding androgynes that only go after teenagers. A friend of mine took the opportunity to rid...

I hate the vamp jobs. They think they’re so suave. It’s not enough for them to slaughter and eat you like a zombie would. No, they want to be all sexy, too. And trust me:...

The dream came again—three times in three nights and always at the first of the year.

I’m just being practial. I knew someday I might have to bare my throat to you. Pete and I discussed that very possibility. As for the danger and risk taking, that’s what Pete pays me...

How much do you remember?

I get in that kind of situation all the time, Comrade. It’s not a big deal.” Anger replaced my fear. I didn’t like being treated like a child. “Stop calling me that. You don’t even...

She was not at the concert any more. She looked around the rustic room, blinking. What the hell?The singer had her in his arms still. There was no balcony between them now.His hands slid into...

Christian,” she breathed after her name had remained uncomfortably within his ears for a most distressing period of time.The tears in her eyes had begun to fill quickly and more tears fell as she stared...

Yeah, well … you know how we hobbits like to eat.

Now defend what is ours, my partner.”He grinned … grinned! … and whirled to meet Myrnin in midleap as Myrnin attacked.

We come together, we create our families, we chose our mates out of the desire to form a life together. Love takes many forms, wears many faces, but when it’s real, when it touches your...

Consider the coincidences that you do not see.” – Fabian Snowstrom, A Vampire’s Reckoning

… vampires are like gourmet chocolate – oh, so tempting, but overindulgence is a killer.

She had a destiny, and it was wonderful, every girl’s dream. Like Sleeping Beauty, awoken from a deep sleep by a charming vampire, Lena would have her very own fairy tale.

I felt him closing in on me. My insides twisted and my cheeks grew warmer with his approach as if I could feel the warmth of his shower radiating off him.”All of a sudden, you’re...

Vampires, bringing America together!

In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses...

He knew his vampire ‘sisters’ would drain the girls until they were nearly dead, then feed them some of their own blood. That’s when the turning would start – as vampire and human blood mixed...

Ranerio wrapped his hand around mine, guiding my fingers like Lucius had done when he’d shown me the latch behind the dressing-room door mirror. But while the warrior I loved had been offering me an...

The Rakshasa,” said Percy pedantically, “are a different breed altogether from our vampires. Much in the same way that poodles and dachshunds are different breeds of dog. Rakshasas are reviled in India. Their position as...