But in life we don't usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face them when they come, no matter what sort of a state we're in.
For an hour or more he was neither human nor vampire, just a howling, hungry creature of dark delights.
Did you hear it?Just about, I said, trembling nervously.That's not good enough. She frowned. Just about will kill you.
This was selfish and wasteful. Cowardly. Nobody should voluntarily give up on life. If it was your time to die, death would calmly claim you. Otherwise it was your duty to press on and live. P29
The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch.- Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)
Later that day, shortly before the sun sank in the wintry sky, despite the best efforts of the medics, Arra Sails closed her eyes, made peace with the gods of the vampires, breathed her last...and die...
Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116
Confidence has brought them out into the light, but they seem to have forgotten - light's no good for creatures of the night.
I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny greenhead of hair like mine?
I gulped, then stepped over the threshold into the house where I'd lived as a boy. After eighteen long years of wandering, I had finally come home.
I don't think anyone ever remembers what they were really like as kids. Adults think they do, but they don't. Photos and videos don't capture the real you, or bring back to life the person you used to...