These days vampires gravitated toward particle accelerators, projects to decode the genome, and molecular biology. Once they had flocked to alchemy, anatomy, and electricity. If it went bang, involved blood, or promised to unlock the secrets of the universe, there was sure to be a vampire around.

She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.

Be yourself-- Matthew Clairmont. Complete with your sharp vampire teeth and your scary mother, your test tubes full of blood and your DNA, your infuriating bossiness and your maddening sense of smell.

I wanted to know how humans came up with a view of the world that had so little magic in it. I needed to understand how they convinced themselves that magic wasn’t important.

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.

I know,I can smell it, too.

Her bark is worse than her bite.