"The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?"
- Christine Feehan
"If you are a vampire, then a vampire is not the creature of the legends."
"It's all well and good to look back after the fact and see what we should have done, but we rarely know what path is best when we take that first step."
"How do you keep your emotions so under control, Nicolas? Even when you're doing things that have to bother you?" She glanced up at him to make certain her question hadn't upset him."I don't do anythin..."
"He rarely smoked, but once in a while, like now, when his world had been shaken, his woman nearly killed in front of his eyes, and he’d watched a house consume a man and spit him out, he figured a dra..."
"Have you ever heard of a condom? Don't Carpathians have condoms? Because I'm thinking that if you're all that worried, a condom might be just the thing." His smile was slow in coming. "I had not thoug..."
"Abbey," Sarah said, "life is to be lived. If you're living, you're going to stumble along the way.""All the time?" Abigail lept to her feet and began to pace. "I have such a bad temper and when I was ..."
"It's your way of fighting. You refuse to engage and then you can't lose."
"He'd been ten years old when he'd last begged someone for something, and he'd promised himself he'd never do it again, but this was too important."
"Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it."