For my own good. Anytime anyone had ever used those words to me, they hadn't had the slightest clue what ‘my own good’ truly was

The first rule of Evernight is that any vampire who seeks sanctuary must be given a place." -Charity

How did you learn all this?" Vic sighed. "See, while you spend all your time making out with Balthazar, and Raquel stays holed up with her art projects, and Ranulf's off studying his Norse myths again, i do something else. Something crazy. Something strange. I call it 'talking to other people.' Through this miraculous process, I am sometimes able to learn facts about two or three other human beings in a single day. Scientists plan to study my method." ~Vic

You gotta learn how to take a compliment, because I'm not going to stop making them.

I went to him in the doorway and embraced him tightly. "Thank you," I whispered. "You've done so much for us, and we've done nothing for you." "Don't say that." Vic's hands patted my back. "You're my friends. Nothing else to it.

Every single day was just a box on the calendar that I could put a red X through; each one brought me closer to Lucas and to liberty.

People get stupid when they're in love; people want what they can't have; and the years between ages twelve and eighteen always, always suck.