“He didn’t know how one’s flesh prickled when fear took hold. He didn’t understand what it was like to gaze into the future and know that it would be nothing more than a dark and lonely place.”
“He wanted what he didn’t know and he didn’t know how to get what he wanted.’ (Acheron)”
“What he didn’t know was how to beg for her forgiveness, and at that moment, her forgiveness was what he craved the most…even more than he craved her blood.”
“A person who thought he knew everything simply didn’t understand how much there was to know.”
“He didn’t know what he was going to — but it had to be better than what he was leaving behind.”
“Better this way, what remained of his battered sensibilities told him. He was no good for her, anyway. She didn’t understand him. She didn’t understand that he was cursed. And, selfish as he was, he’d rather she hate him than he hate himself any more than he was already going to. Any more than he already did.”