We are all affected by our pasts, but it is within our power not to let what we have done to dictate what we will do.

There was a pause, and then Damien said, "I nominate Erik Night." Shaunee rolled her eyes. Erin said, "Okay, how many times do we have to explain this to you - the boy is not on your team. He likes breasts and vaginas, not penises and anu - " "Stop!" I absolutely did not want to get off on this subject. "I think Erik Night is a good choice, and not because he likes me or, well...

I'll find you again. Even if it takes a hundred of those years.

People today, vampyres and humans alike, believe the earth is just a dead thing that they live on-that it is somehow wrong or evil or barbaric to listen to the voices of the souls of the world, and so the heart and the nobility of an entire way of life dried up and withered away.

I like to think of birthdays as celebrating life." "Only losers acknowledge they survived a year and hope they cheat death again.

I'm a monster, not a moron.

You know that prejudice isn't logical, which is why it is so hard to overcome.