“She was staying. A little longer.V smiled to himself. So this was what winning the lottery felt like.”

“She slapped him so fast and so hard,his head actually kicked back on his spine.His first instinct was to bare his fangs and bite her,to punish her,to tantalize himself-because there was no better spice to pleasure than a little pain.Or a lot of it.He righted his head and lowered his lids."That felt good.Do you want to do it again?”

“God, now she knew what decent men felt like, the disquiet before taking someone for their first time.”

“As his ears rang and his heart broke for her, he stayed strong against the gale force she let loose. After all, there was a reason why here and hear were seperated by so little and sounded one like the other. Bearing witness to her, he heard her and was there for her because that was all you could do during a fall apart.But God, it pained him to see how she suffered.”

“It felt odd to realize she was frightened more by what he might know, and not of what he might be.”

“You've won the evolutionary lottery: You're a vampire. Let's go to Disneyland!”

“Kind of like winning the fifty-meter ass-stroke in the Loserlympics”