“You never know what the vodka will bring, I laughed.Oh, like the time you caught my hair on fire at the candlelight party in Mels basement! That was the craziest thing that I ever had happen to me....”

“I swallowed hard and said as calmly as possible, Theres been a murder. I dont know what happened. The address is two-two-zero three Devonshire Court.”

“Im suddenly not hungry, Shane, said, his face ashen. Noah, you go get the note. Be careful not to touch anything else. Dont step in the blood.”

“Lets get the heck out of here then. These dark empty places give me the creeps. I feel like zombies are going to spring out at any time, I said, picking up my dropped items.If there are zombies the...”

“I could have sworn I just heard him thinking about the proposal he had planned. Red roses and champagne waiting at the restaurant, but maybe I imagined it.I frowned in turn. You could read his thou...”

“Sounds like this ability stuff went okay with Shane after all. I had no idea that he would react like that, Noah said.Yeah, well, it helps when he wants to rip Nessas clothes off, I said grinning.H...”

“Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What ot...”

“If I could understand everything the way I do now, I could make it all--and then it just stopped. Leaving me with that feeling like when you figure out something brilliant and profound in a dream, ...”

“It was Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the television series, 1997-2003, not the lackluster movie that preceded it) that blazed the trail for Twilight and the slew of other paranormal roman...”

“We feel most alive when we are closest to death.”

“There is a child - a baby - who long since kicked off her blankets. Her skin is ashen and her mouth open in a perpetual yet silent scream. She isn't old enough to roll over, to sit up, to climb. So...”

“Conquest was not satisfying if it began with a surrender.”

“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”

“Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore.”