"She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "Yes," he said finally."
- Holly Black
"Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?"
"Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to."
"He whom the gods love dies young."
- Menander
"Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways."
"Be careful," Aidan called from the bed. "You don't know what he might do." "We all know what you'd do, though, don't we?"
"Are you sure?" Aidan asked, "Gavriel's still a vampire." "He warned me about you and about them. He didn't have to. I'm not going to repay that by-" she hesitated, then frowned. "What did you call hi..."
"I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did."
"I'm sorry,' she said to each of the dead as she unzipped and unfastened their things, 'I'm sorry Courtney. I'm sorry Marcus. I'm sorry Rachel. I'm sorry Jon. I'm sorry I'm alive and you're dead. I'm s..."
"You said you were allowed to lose it,' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet."