“Love, really? We're vampires, not teenagers. Lust is for the weak.”

“Vampires were myths, childhood stories– as were werewolves, mermaids and dragons. I believed none of it.”

“When he whispered my name, that's when I knew- this was how death felt.”

“The day stared back an empty gray, with not a speck of white to give character to the lifeless sky.”

“That settles it, no more books about vampire before bedtime.”

“We girls, we're tough, darling. Soft on the outside but, deep down, we're tough.”

“Jonas, Tate’s teenaged son … looking like mini-Tate, giving me the understanding that in a few years, me and every woman over twenty-five years of age in Carnal would be moved to become a cougar.”