Vlad hated doing the paperwork as much as he did when a human employee quit, which was why they'd both made a promise not to eat quitters just to avoid the paperwork. As Tess had pointed out, eating the staff was bad for marale and made it so much harder to find new employees.

Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon

We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now.

More than a shadow and less than a soul.

I can heal the scars on your body, but I can’t heal the scars of the soul. Not yours, not mine. You have to learn to live with them. You have to choose to live beyond them

Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.

Opportunities and choices. When a person makes a heart wish, that wish resonates through the currents and things will happen to give the person an opportunity to make the wish come true. Like a hand offered and accepted.