A ghostly voice shivered along my spine, whispering, “We shall meet soon, bèt nan bwa.

I feel like I’m forgetting something. Vyrus. Clans. Zombies. Stay out of the sun. Don’t get shot. Abandon your life. Drink blood to survive. No, guess that pretty much covers it.

Being true to yourself is always the right thing to do.””Is it? Even if you’re a monster?

…an ambitious array of dishonorable intentions that he intended to wield upon the Countess’s nether regions. — BATS 2015

Am I right in thinkin’ you’ve maybe been” – he dropped his voice – “the victim of an infamous outrage by the darkies?

The weight of the dead was heavier than the pounds of the body.

When her gaze landed upon his lips, he scooted closer and brushed his mouth over hers. Fire ignited low in his belly and desire coursed through his veins. No doubt, his John Thomas was doing...

More than anything, Natalie wanted to move to the bed, take Sophie’s hand, sit beside her.Lay her head against her shoulder. But she didn’t dare. Or maybe just couldn’t. Fear. Friendship. Desire. Regret. Remorse. Longing....

Congrats, bro. You’ve just sold your soul to the devil. Wait. You don’t have a soul.

I’m starved.” -Juli”How can you be starved? You just ate a huge bowl of popcorn.” -Elspeth”Popcorn isn’t food, it’s popcorn.” -Vicki

I’ve read about this in books, imagined it in my mind countless times since I’ve been here, but to actually witness it is something entirely different. I thought I was prepared, but nothing—no amount of...

Because there are worse punishments than death. Live with your guilt, old man. May it rot in your heart and kill you slowly for manyyears to come.

Why go for something cold and dead, when you can have something hot and panting?

I don’t know that he said a thing. He smelled strange, I noticed that right away, not rotten like you and Roticella said, more complicated, like an apple that the wasps are flying around, musty,...

I know it’s practical for career women, but sneakers with suits? Jesus couldn’t possibly weep harder than I did.

She opened her eyes to find a strange man above her.”Ahh,” he sighed. “Your eyes are the color of jade. I imagined them to be dark, like your hair. How strange.”She continued to stare at...

Evolve? Like a Pokemon?’ I have no idea why I say this. I think I’m kind of going into shock, and the first thing that pops into my head when he says evolve is Charmander...

One doesn’t need to be taught fear when one is the hunted.

The little weasel ripped all the buttons off my couch.Ivan Petrovsky, pg 350

I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn’t Buffy–I was so screwed.

All the light was now coming from the East; and it looked breathtakingly new. In a very short time, everything was nationalized, from banks to factories, from pharmacies to little distilleries.

Vampires do breathe, by the way, but their chests don’t move like humans’. Have you ever lain in the arms of your sweetheart and tried to match your breathing to his, or hers? You do...

She can go with us to the lab and keep Myrnin pinned down while we pull the plug, if he’s not… you know, better.””Define BETTER with that guy.””Not all fangs and raaaaar.

He hung up on her. She’d just been hung up on by a disembodied brain in a jar. Fantastic.

What about stakes in the heart?” I asked now. He frowned, the center of his mouth pursed while its corners curled downward. “Anyone will die from a stake in the heart,” he said. “And anyone...

We walked the length of Jackson Square, stopping to look at the work of a couple of artists who’d set up their sidewalk shops for the day.”Look.” Eugenie stopped in front of an acrylic painting...

Go ahead and try. I’ll attempt to loosen up. Her muscles tightened when I took her hand in mine. “Do you know any self-hypnosis?””I guess I’m tensing too much.” She took several deep calming breaths...

Up close, Lucas’s scent hit him differently. His smell had cloyed and taunted, lingering in rooms where Lucas had been. But now it was the real, male smell of skin and soap, sweat and breath....

First of all, I’ll tell you who I’m not. I’m not your enemy, so you can put the sharp pointy objects away,’ he responded in a light conversational tone, obviously not deterred by my abrasiveness,...

You Can Not Run From Destiny

We want you to tell us about vampires.”Simon grinned. “What do you want to know? Scariest is Eli in Let the Right One In, cheesiest is late-era Lestat, most underrated is David Bowie in The...

Finally, both of them fell asleep together with their limbs entwined in the eternal position of a lover’s embrace.

Nothing says delicious like a short Chinese man in a darkened alley to whet my appetite.

You of all people know how hard it is to trust. Especially when the world we live in is not the one humans are aware of. Trust must be earned, and the way to earn...

With bells on babe” Dean purred sexily and hung up.

Do it for the kids! The ones who look up to you — especially when they are pleading for their lives.” — Bats 2015

V settled back against the pillows and measured the hard line of her chin.”Take off your coat.””Excuse me?””Take it off.””No.””I want it off.””Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won’t affect me in the slightest,...

Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. “No,” she said softly, “Oh no. No.” “Leave me,” said Gavriel. …..”Shut up or I might,” she...

Not all fairytales have happy endings, my dear…Not all witches burn in ovens, not every princess wakes up, and sometimes the trail of breadcrumbs doesn’t lead to a safe place…I should know.”- Extract from The...

That’s how you know you’re doing the right thing – it’s so hard you want to give up.

Only that? I will see her bathed in blood before me.

Charles, mate, you fret too much. I’m a grown man, I am, and I can blood my handle.””Handle your blood?” Bones offered dryly.Ian grinned. “Exactly.

She is so tiresome. ‘Am I a vampire, am I a wolf, am I a vampire, am I a wolf, I cannot decide, so I’ll be both!

What the hell happened? I keep replaying everything and returning to the point where you held a dead man’s head in your hand and a sharp bloody knife in the other. That wasn’t the Katie...

If I was smart now, I would simply walk back the way I had come instead of proceeding forward into the face of danger. Obviously there was a part of me that had considered facing...

Since I met you, Corinne Bishop, I’ve been thinking of little else.

Freedom was a foot away when they turned back to me. The one who kept speaking, a tall vamp with a handsome curly-haired glamour, shook his head. “Sorry.” He bared his fangs in an apologetic...

… The freshly devoured peppermint she loved lofted from her breath and up to his nose with her loud bellow of Father in his ear, and Caxton was sure that he could smell that scent...

Every girl dreams of waking up one day, a princess. Until that day kicks you in the face, wearing steel toed boots.

Wait, Richard Cheney, as in Dick Cheney? You’re a vampire named Dick Cheney? Somehow, that makes you seem more evil.