I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.

The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.

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.

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

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

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

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