She was crawling out from under the huge tour bus when he first caught sight of her. She was small, like a child.

I'm putting up a great front, then because I feel like I'm breaking apart inside.

We never can just stop time. Or take moments back. Life doesn't work that way, does it?

The real knife to a man's heart was his woman's tears.

She didn't want soft and gentle. She needed his rough possession, claiming her, branding her, taking her in a firestorm of heat and flame that would end the world around them, leaving them nothing but ashes, clean and fierce and forever welded together.

If you are a vampire, then a vampire is not the creature of the legends.

And of course I'm a chauvinist, but it isn't my fault." "It isn't?" "No, Jack was born first and I share his genes. I can't help it if he infected me inside the womb." Briony burst out laughing. "I should have known that would be your excuse.