“Oh, is that all youre looking forward to - a break from your studies? He peered down at her with a knowing smirk.”

“She shivered as a blustery wind rushed past. Shed made a mistake in returning to the city. She shouldve stayed in the castle with Antoine. Shed be warm in his arms right now, instead of being held ...”

“Better undead than dead.”

“Nothing would keep him from loving her. She was everything he wanted. She was his.”

“He lowered his head until his lips hovered centimeters above hers. This was the moment he craved. This heated moment each of them lingering, waiting, wanting. He loved the excitement of the build-...”

“When we wake, its officially Christmas Eve. Good. Because I have something special to give you. She turned over her shoulder and cocked an eyebrow. Thought you just did. He chuckled, a deep and th...”

“...I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding-school, where we are for...”

“He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of ho...”

“The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days late...”

“Camerons mind registered what the rest of him already knew. He was insane about this woman, and hed do anything to be with her, anything to protect her. Shed become his world. How it had happened, ...”

“She took a deep breath and peered up from under her long, dark lashes. He sucked air in. Damn, that look could undo any man or wolf, or alien for that matter. Something to eat? No, Cameron. She sm...”

“Belief is both a marvelous and a terrible thing. Belief makes things real.”

“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.- MATTHEW 7:15”

“All the better to bite you, my dear!”

“I was dying, I realized vaguely. There was no getting out of that. The vampire author would be drained dry by a vampire. It was almost a poetic way to go.”