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

You know I love you more when you're cold and heartless.

I hurt with you. I bled with you - not only because we're bonded but because of the love I have for you. -- Eric Northman

We followed the bondage Bobbsey Twins across the crowded dance floor. Those leather shorts were an adventure from behind, let me tell you. And the pictures of Elvis decorating the walls were an education, too. It wasn’t often you ran into a bondage/Elvis/ whorehouse-themed vampire club.

Vampires. They wrote the book on possessive.

Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.

As I watched Bill, waiting with apparent calm for death to come to him, I had a flash of him as I'd known him: the first vampire I'd ever met, the first man I'd ever gone to bed with, the first suitor I'd ever loved. Everything that followed had tainted those memories, but for one moment I saw him clearly, and I loved him again.