“Because I dont believe that you are a slave to what youve become. I dont believe that you simply cant.”

“No. In my eyes, she was most beautiful because at a time when she had every right to be terrified, she managed to show comfort to another person who needed it.”

“Because I don’t believe that you are a slave to what you’ve become. I don’t believe that you simply can’t.”

“Come with me if you want to live. Neva stared at the enormous hand the stranger extended her. Her gaze followed the black leather-clad arm up to the massive shoulders, the strong jaw, and the thick...”

“Shit. Shit. Shit. Hed known he couldnt save her. Hed known he was too far away. Knowing didnt prevent the bare-knuckled punch to his heart, though.”

“Maybe shed remember him as a pain in the ass. Or maybe, he hoped most of all, that shed remember what she told him: You can be a real jerk sometimes, but youre decent. As epitaphs went, it wasnt bad.”

“We do not kill good people, for the world is better with them in it.”

“Silence wrapped around us as time itself held its breath, quietly coaxing us to that secret place of sighs and whispers where we might just lose ourselves completely and truly find each other."- Wi...”

“Rules and regulations are for humans.”

“Did you just mentally pistol whip that guy, with his own gun? Nice, Amber. I would have just killed him.”

“Getting up from the bed, Dominick approaches me at a slow predatory pace. Once again, I cannot move my feet.”

“Goddamn it, do it yourself. Youre five hundred years old and you cant use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?”