“You can only fight what you are for so long. Eventually the hand that nature has dealt you will make you become what you were meant to be. You have no control over it.”

“What are you most scared of, Caitlin? What I can do to you, or how I make you feel?”

“The rarity of what you hold is more powerful than you can imagine. It is a gift for humanity and the most lethal curse to the vampires.”

“I’m more than twisted. I’m the worst kind of vampire… But you’re the one who’s craving me, so what does that make you?”

“She exhaled curtly. ‘I’m a serryn. That’s all you see. I’m just something to be tortured, slain or sold off as a commodity. That’s hardly the most appealing of traits.’ ‘Tell your eyes that. Because you really shouldn’t look at me the way you do. No serryn has looked at me like that.”

“We die, you die. You die, we survive. I think there’s a pecking order in that, don’t you?”

“You need me, Kane. Maybe even more than I need you.”