I could tell Hugo was convinced that he would get to walk back up these stairs: after all, he was a civilized person. These were all civilized people. Hugo really couldn't imagine that anything irreparable could happen to him, because he was a middle-class white American with a college education, as were all the people on the stairs with us. I had no such conviction. I was not a wholly civilized person.

The average woman would not be pondering how fast her date could kill her, but I’ll never be an average woman.

You just don't want a vampire pissed off at you.

But in my book, it was basically bad taste to stare at someone's assets, no matter how much on display they were.

And you are mine, and you will be mine. They will not get you. - Eric from Dead and Gone

I could add her to the long list of people I didn't understand.

Appius Livius Ocella made mistakes in his whole long existence. Perhaps changing Eric was his finest hour. He created the perfect vampire. Eric's only flaw is you.