Eric followed Vlad Tepes’s stubby finger, identifying me as the future Happy Meal. Then he stared at Dracula, looking up from his kneeling position. I couldn’t read his face at all, and I felt a stirr...
Coffe is the perfume of morning.
Better to be screwed physically than financially.
A place isn’t really yours until you clean it.
A peremptory knock on the front door made me jump.
Ladies are not responsible for the bad manners of fools.
You've reached Fantasia, where the undead live again every night, For bar hours, press one. To make a party reservation, press two. To talk to alive person or a dead vampire, press three. Or, if you w...
The southern standard of niceness was this: You’d never been convicted of anything, you didn’t look at other’s women’s husbands too openly. You wrote your thank-you notes and were polite to your elder...
The cruelty of children is more shocking than the cruelty of adults. Not only was I shocked, I was angry. But it felt somehow wrong, unhealthy, to be so furious with a child.
Suddenly, he had a mental image of Xylda so vivid that it almost brought tears to his eyes: this whole rush of past experiences, brought back by that one inhalation. He knew he said something to Creek...
No thanks, I said, giving a sigh of repletion. That was so good.
My mouth was dry as cotton and my head hurt like hell. I tried to lift it, and the effort left me shaken and nauseated. I satisfied myself with just shifting my eyes around. I thought of all the books...
Los muertos enterrados no me daban miedo. Los vivos y los no muertos eran mucho más peligrosos.
JB’s mother had taught him early on that appreciated women are happy women.
It must be one of the worst things in the world, to see your child revealed as a selfish little sadist.
If you do that any more I'll have you whether you want to be had or not, he said, and I could tell he meant it.
If it's easy to be friendly she will be. If the wind blows the other way her friendship will be gone. And I'm thinking the wind is blowing the other way. She has found some other way to be an importan...
I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury myself in a book.
I love the South, don’t get me wrong; but it does lag behind the times in social developments.
I gave myself a mental shake. Snapping out of a slump, that was what today was all about.