"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..."
"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...” ..."
"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."
"Stefan needed me. Ha! Stefan needed me, as what? His next meal?"
"She rounded on me with such ferocity that for a moment I didn’t recognize her. A flash of fangs, a dark gleam in her blacker-than-night eyes. It was the most vampiric I’d ever seen her."
"A decision made during a moment of weakness can ruin your life. To date, I had made three."
"Don’t listen to the ramblings of fools,” he said, smiling grimly. “When it comes down to it, if they knew the truth, no one would want to live on this earth forever."
"If I were pressed, I would admit that she was beautiful, in a dead bride sort of way."