Some things need to be broken to become stronger.

Say what you would about the dietary requirements, vampirism sure did do great things for the skin and body.

I shouldn’t ask you to,” he said, devotion in every word, “but I’m going to. Wait for me, Jess. I’ll come back to you.” Naked emotion turned the sea green into hidden emeralds. Pressing her fingers to his lips, she shook her head. “You never have to ask, Galen. Forever, that’s how long I’d wait for you.

In her lived an innocence of soul of which she seemed unaware.

Love is the greatest form of loyalty, one that places happiness of the beloved over the lover.

Once, he'd used it in song, but the songs in his heart had gone silent long ago, and he knew that one day so would his voice. A man with nothing inside him eventually had nothing to say.

These predators loved with wild fury, but they were also darkly possessive, crossing the boundary into what humans might term obsession.