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

I wish," I said. "I could save orgasms in a jar for when I need them, because I think I have a few extra.

I’d never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues.

When you've been really beaten, you realize that you are just an envelope of skin, an easily penetrated envelope that holds together a lot of fluids and some rigid structures, which in their turn can simply be broken and invaded.

So you want me to go to a human orgy, where I will not be welcome, and you want us to leave before I get to enjoy myself? ~Eric Northman

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.