"Death stalked toward us on padded feet. And it was not alone."
- Melika Dannese Lux
"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 thr..."
"A lot of things should have been, Zigmund, but they aren’t. Are you going to be miserable about the things you cannot change, or do something about the things you can?"
"Tell me, Eric,” he said, licking a droplet from the corner of his mouth. “Have you ever tasted blood?” My mouth was so dry I could barely find the voice to answer him. “What an odd question...” ..."
"His character is like an emerald—multifaceted and enhanced by inclusions."
"Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldn’t understand why, since she had very little character left to defend."
"Thirteen years of friendship had bonded us together more thoroughly than if we had been born of the same mother. Even at this late stage, I was unwilling to let him go."
"I’d go to hell and back and cut off the devil’s head myself to save you."
"He was mocking me. I could see his mouth beginning to lift in a maddening smirk, a smile that was half sardonic and half secretive, as if the fate of the world depended on the answer to a riddle only ..."
"Not all vampires are created equal, you know."