It’s just been my experience that some kinds of working relationships are better motivated by fear than by monetary gain.

The rains would end, and when they did, Ian and I would be together, partners in the truest sense. This was a promise and an obligation I had never had in all my lives. Thinking of it made me feel joyful and anxious and shy and desperately impatient all at the same time—made me feel human.

Next time you want to hit me hit me with a baseball bat or a crowbar!

The morning brought with it, if not a brighter outlook, at least a measure of control, some acceptance. Instinctively, I knew that the new tear in my heart would always ache. That was just going to be a part of me now.

Jasper? What do vampires do for bachelor parties? You're not taking him to a strip club, are you?

I'm really glad I did not tattoo on my body 'cause I don't want them. So, permanence is a very scary thing to me, along with things that don't change at all.

Humans were always surprising me.