There is nothing for her beyond those gates," Gavriel said. "Do you think to bring her along like a talisman to remind you of your humanity? Or do you think sharing your damnation will lighten the burden of it?

She’s an old lady,” Barron says. “And she’s been locked up for years. Let her have some fun. She needs to blow off steam. Seduce old dudes. Lose money at canasta.

It is my belief that books are living things.

It's starting to sink in," Corny said. "I can almost look at you without wanting to bang my head against the wall.

Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.

Jones looks like he wants to slug me, which is only subtly different from his usual way of looking at me like I'm a slug.

His eyes look too bright, the way the do in people who are in love, people who are enraged, and people who are completely bonkers.