“I was once a man. As not all men are good, not all vampires are evil.”

“He had dirty-blond good looks to match a dirty-good smile. Yes, dirty. There was just enough twinkle in his smiling brown eyes to suggest there might be all manner of naughty-guy impulses rattling around that cute body of his.”

“Maybe we'll have vampire prom."He shot me an appalled look. "What is this, Twilight?”

“It appeared that spending my formative years getting smacked around by my dad may have earned me the privileged of getting smacked around by a bunch of vampires.”

“This group is known as the watchers. And to be a watcher is a woman's fortune."He said that last bit as though it was the greatest honor girls like us could ever attain. My thoughts turned grim. It was once considered an honor to be a sacrificial lamb, too.”

“I am roots in the earth. I am water that flows. I am grounded. I am Watcher.”

“I didn't trust such general greatness one little bit.”