I'm going to talk to her." "And how's that going to go? You're just going to walk up to her and say, 'Hey, I know you've never seen me before, but I'm your dad. Oh, and guess what? You've won the evolutionary lottery: You're a vampire. Let's go to Disneyland!

I’m talking to you more than I speak with my mahmen.” “I thought your mother was dead.” “She is.” “You have a very low standard for communication.

You are a manipulator. I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.

You've got nothing to worry about. The righteous do not always right, but their souls remain pure. -Lassiter the Angel

That human, he's a lesser waiting to happen, in my opinion--nothing less, nothing more

So what’d you do to the lesser?” a male voice said. “I lit his cigarette with a sawed-off,” another one answered. “He didn’t come down for breakfast, you feel me?

John Matthew was her well of soul, as the symphaths called it,or her pyrocant, to the vampires. Her essential weakness.