Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves.

School was more than academics; an education prepared you for the humdrum of real life: working with others, tempering one's personality to assimilate with the group but without losing your individual identity, understading the factors of logic, reasoning, and debate. For a person - vampire or human - to succeed in the world, unlocking the mysteries of the universe was insufficient. One would also need to grasp the mysteries of human nature.

The more things change, the more they stay different.

If you think we'll get in, we'll get in. It's all about confidence, trust me.

He kissed her, and their souls melted into each other in a melody older than time.

Kingsley, ever the joker, had his Venator mark tattooed near his unmentionables

It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were merely two young people in love and nothing else.