“As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace.”

“That night as they slept in each other's arms neither Alistair nor Sophia had any nightmares.”

“So I lied to you last night. I said that I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you.”

“You can look at the words on this paper and, because they are the ones I am used to choosing, they will show you the shape of me. I am here to be read in the way you might read the impression of my weight in a bed after a still night, a restless night, a night not alone.”

“Do you think it is safe?""You're with two vampires in the middle of the night alone on the road and you ask me if it's safe here?”

“It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn’t see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars.”