“Humanity is a vampire's greatest weakness.”

“Whom do you want first, Aline?" ~ Vampire Meri”

“My greatest fear? I’ll just stop breathing one day. My next greatest fear? That I no longer care.”

“Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?”

“Well, you can't be a vampire." I struggled to make it sound like I was teasing, not feverishly wishing. "You're not sparkling.”

“Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very precious. They are like water, which gives life and growth and refreshment, but because it has always been abundant, we treat it cheaply. We waste it; we pollute it, and doctor it. Later we blame the quality of the water because we have misused it.”

“This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's rosebushes.”