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

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

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.

Wordlessly I looked back at him, astonished that a kiss on the palm could be so intimate.

Matthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires weren’t the only creatures who had to manage such strong impulses. Much of what qualified as magic was simply desire in action. Witchcraft was different- that took spells and rituals. But magic? A wish, a need, a hunger too strong to be denied- these could turn into deeds when they cross a witch’s mind.

With knot of one, the spell's begun. With knot of two, the spell be true. With knot of three, the spell is free. With knot of four, the power is stored. With knot of five, the spell with thrive. With knot of six, this spell I fix.

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.