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.

Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world.

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

Remember the past - and await the future.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed (Albert Einstein)

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.

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