Let's fool around.And then? he asked, voice low.When it's time, take blood, and then let's fuck.He gave a surprised burst of laughter. Ma petite, you are such a sweet-talker, how can I refuse?
Larry had brought me blue jeans, a red polo shirt, jogging socks, my white Nikes, an extra cross from my suitcase, the silver knives, the Firestar complete with inner pants holster, and the Browning a...
Jason patted me on the back. Tomorrow night we'll take you out chasing deer.I thought you'd chase cars, I said.He grinned. What fun is that? Cars don't bleed.
It’s not about being able to do something, Rocco. It’s not even about thinking about doing it. It’s not even about being tempted to go too far. [...] It’s about deciding not to do it. It’s about being...
It's that you're not outraged that someone's trying to kill you. Your just accept it, almost like it's normal. It isn't normalAssassins aren't normal, even for me, Richard I said. Just vampires, zombi...
Ignorance isn't bliss, but neither is knowledge. Sometimes you just know more, but it doesn't make you any happier.
If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped up into little pieces while you watch. It leaves a big hollow space that nev...
If I don't say it enough, Jean-Claude, I love you, I love seeing your face across the table while we eat, and watching you root at Cynric's football games, and watching you read bedtime stories to Mat...
I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.
I watched her fade, but I loved her always. Because it was her love that made me real, Merry. Not faerie, not wild magic, but the magic of love. I thought I was giving up what life I had to save Rose,...
I was just offered a contract on your life, for enough money to make it worth my while. It was my turn to be quiet.Did you take it?Would I be calling you if I had?Maybe, I said. He laughed.True, but I...
I tried to picture a young, insecure Edward and couldn't, but it was nice to know that once he'd been a boy. Sometimes it felt like Edward had sprung full grown from the head of some violent deity,lik...
I thought we were the good guys, he said, and it had that note of a child who finally realizes that sometimes good and evil aren’t so much opposites, as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way, and i...
I looked up at Ellen and her not-glowing pentagram. Harm none is the rule, Ellen: bad witch, no cookie.
I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.
I got out my jar of ointment. I knew animators who had special containers for the ointment. Crockery, hand-blown glass, mystical symbols carved into the sides. I used an old Mason jar that had once he...
I didn't like having my inhibitions lowered. If i was going to cut loose, i wanted to be in control of just how loose i got.
I called her Mrs. Bennington at her insistence. When I'd referred to her as Ms. Bennington, she'd nearly bitten my head off. She was not one of your liberated women. She liked being a wife and mother....
He's no more human than I am, ma petite.At least I'm not dead.That can be remedied.
He whispered, More than life, more than honor, I love thee. What do you say when a man whose entire existence had been his honor offers to give it up for you? You say the only thing you can. More than...