In this room we understand why this war might be fought...it's about our common belief that no one has the right to tell two creatures that they cannot love each other--no matter what their species.

Gallowglass returned to Sporrengasse with two vampires and a pretzel.

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

It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.

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.

English vampires may not be as well behaved around witches as the American ones are.

Are you smelling me?” After yesterday I suspected that my body was giving him all kinds of information I didn't want him to have. “Don't tempt me,” he murmured.