You are so beautiful, he mouthed. But of course she couldn’t see his lips. Guess he was going to have to show her.

I do not crave this" But he needed it before he became a danger to himself and others.

he(Quinn)put his hand out to his friend. “I’ll lay my life down for you.With or Without that piece of paper

When you were young, you thought time was a burden, something to be discharged as fast as possible so you could be grown-up. But it was such a bait-n-switch – when you were an adult, you came to realize that minutes and hours were the single most precious thing you had.

V had a passing thought that she used the word "anyway" like an eraser on a crowded chalkboard. She said it whenever she needed to clear off the things she'd just shared to make room for more.

Terrific. A bisexual dominant vampire with kidnapping expertise.

This was the gift of recovery, he thought. The ability to be here in this moment with the female he loved and be fully aware, fully awake, fully present. Undiluted.