Just you wait till I’m a vampire! I’m not going to be sitting on the sidelines next time.

I'd rather know what you're thinking - even if what you're thinking is insane.

My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?

You know I love you right?” “I know,” he breathed, his arm tightening automatically around my waist. “You know how much I wish it was enough.

Now and then I see something in her eyes, and I wonder if I’ve ever grasped how much pain she’s really in.

Sometimes, kismet happens.

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.