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

Illium says that perhaps I can use them to flutter someone to death. - Aodhan to Jason, Archangel's Storm

She wished he’d stop touching her. Not because she didn’t like it but because she liked it far too much. It made her hunger for things that could never be hers. And if someone went hungry for too long, they started to starve. Started to hurt.

Hawke's gaze was so innocent, Andrew knew it was pure bullshit

Illium grinned, unrepentant. “Want to try again? I’ll move extra slow — you are both so much older, after all.” The last words were a conspiratorial whisper. Galen glanced at Raphael. “How has he survived this long?” “No one can catch him.

Lifting her head, she joined in as the others in the group began to howl in response to Brace's triumph. The sound was . . . It touched the soul, the music haunting, starkly pure and yet so very earthy.

Our memories make us... even the darkest of them all.