You persist in this romantic vision of what it is to be a vampire, but despite my best efforts to curb it I have a taste for blood.

there’s nothing more powerful than human fear—not magic, not vampire strength. Nothing.

My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.

Sir. My lord. Master Roydon." The young man blurted out most available titles except for "Your Majesty" and "Prince of Darkness." These were implied nonetheless.

English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.

It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.

Occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."..' Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult.