“Why kill a flower when you can kill a human instead?”

“We’ll find a way,” I whispered. “I always do.”Danaus leaned forward and brushed a kiss against my temple, sending a wave of peace deepinto the marrow of my bones, helping to ease some of the pain. “And then we’ll kill each other asGod intended.”

“I have doubts, but I'm willing to try. It's the best I can offer. Will you try? I need you, Mira. Try for me.”

“When there's a monster under your bed sometimes it really is best not to look.”

“I had a tendency to forget how handsome he was when I was plotting how to peel his skin from the network of muscles and sinew that danced as he moved.”

“You're mine, vampire, from here until the end. You are mine.”

“You cannot leave me. The world would never survive my wrath.”