My ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.

If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only because it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.

We kissed each other, long and deep, while my legs opened like the covers of a book.

Yes, I see that you are behaving like a prince but that doesn't mean you won't behave like a devil at the first opportunity.

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

Just because something seems impossible doesn't make it untrue.

Within days they'd formed an unholy alliance with a foppish young French vampire in the Garden District who had implausibly golden hair and a streak of ruthlessness as wide as the Mississippi