You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.

Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.

I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant business partner. I wonder if I hurt him. If he can rationalize what I did to him, it’s easy to imagine how he rationalized what he did to me.

Being infected, being a vampire, it’ s always you. Maybe it’ s more you than ever before. It’ s you as you always were, deep down inside.

Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.

I envy what I fear and hate what I envy.

A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.