“My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.”

“I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title "Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something Else to Vampires.”

“Somewhere in the center of my soul, a rusty chain began to unwind. It freed itself, link by link, from where it had rested, unobserved, waiting for him. My hands, which had been balled up and pressed against his chest, unfurled with it. The chain continued to drop, to an unfathomable depth where there was nothing but darkness and Matthew. At last it snapped to its full length, anchoring me to a vampire. Despite the manuscript, despite the fact that my hands contained enough voltage to run a microwave, and despite the photograph, as long as I was connected to him, I was safe.”

“Are you smelling me?” After yesterday I suspected that my body was giving him all kinds of information I didn't want him to have.“Don't tempt me,” he murmured.”

“Gallowglass returned to Sporrengasse with two vampires and a pretzel.”

“You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.”

“As far as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The other is desire.”