Quotes by Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura

“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 ...”

“Death stalked toward us on padded feet.And it was not alone.”

“There was something in her eyes that made me trust her. Maybe it was because they held the same cynicism, the same world-weariness I saw in my own every morning when I looked at myself in the mirror.”

“Id go to hell and back and cut off the devils 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 on...”

“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 didnt recognize her. A flash of fangs, a dark gleam in her blacker-than-night eyes. It was the most vampiric Id ever seen her.”

“A decision made during a moment of weakness can ruin your life. To date, I had made three.”

“Dont 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.”

“Im not asking for your forgiveness. I have done no wrong according to my kind. I never meant to turn you. I just wanted to have a little fun with you before they took you away.”

“If I were pressed, I would admit that she was beautiful, in a dead bride sort of way.”

“Ive read about this in books, imagined it in my mind countless times since Ive been here, but to actually witness it is something entirely different. I thought I was prepared, but nothingno amount ...”

“Maybe I had been making a greater monster of him than he really was, or maybe I was still under his influence, for I was certain that he wanted me to believe he was no more than a harmless man who ...”

“She is so tiresome. Am I a vampire, am I a wolf, am I a vampire, am I a wolf, I cannot decide, so Ill be both!”

“Because, my dear Eric, I have tasted the secret knowledge. I know how much to say and when to pull back. I know what to see and not see. And now that I have become whole again, I can never go back....”

“How does one go on after doing such unspeakable things? It'sall rather simple, really," he continued, speaking in someone else's voice. "Say to yourself, 'What things?' And it becomes clear...you a...”

“His character is like an emeraldmultifaceted and enhanced by inclusions.”

“Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldnt 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.”