One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams.

I long for another human face just as I fear it.

There had been certain romantic interludes in the past that had included galloping across the desert at night; but he had never abducted any woman whose enthusiastic support for such a plan had not been secured well in advance.

Vampire. Dangerous. Unknowable. Seriously creepy. This one's name was Constantine. We'd met before.

So, what do you do when you know you have two days to live? Eat an entire Bitter Chocolate Death cake all by myself. Reread my favorite novel. Buy eight dozen roses from the best florist in town--the super expensive ones, the ones that smell like roses rather than merely looking like them--and put them all over my apartment. Take a good long look at everyone I love.

If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.

One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams.