Looking back, Val knew she had a habit of trusting too much, being too passive, too willing to believe the best of others and the worst of herself.
Winter made sure he got in before his sister, positioning himself in the middle like some kind of chaperone – as if, when the infection kicked back into high gear, Aidan was going to care whom he attacked. Not to mention that Aidan liked boys just fine anyway.
The military put up barricades around the areas of the cities where the infections broke out. That was the way the first Coldtowns were founded. Vampirism is an American problem, the BBC declared. But the next outbreak was in Hong Kong, then Yokohama, then Marseille, then Brecht, then Liverpool. After that, it spread across Europe like wildfire.
Being in the infirmary when you’d gotten injured being awesome was totally different from being in the Infirmary for doing something dumb.
I am used to girls screaming, and your screams- your screams will be sweeter than another’s cries of love.
I tell people everything. People only believe what they can handle. That’s how I know who to trust.
It turns out birds can’t really buy pizza, even if they’re enchanted.
And yet it had happened. A window had been left open to the night, and a vampire had crawled through.
There had been plenty of books and films romanticizing vampires over the last century. It was only a matter of time before a vampire started romanticizing himself.
We all have things inside ourselves we can’t kill,′ I say, not sure which part of me would be better off dead: this monster self, or the normal one who wants nothing more than a little place on a little planet with his friends, the one who will have to live with being a killer.
But books feel real. Surely they must seem more real to you than anyone. They can hurt you. They can break your heart.
It’s amazing how we hide from that, isn’t it? How much of the violence of the universe comes from the unwillingness to say those two little words: ‘I’m scared.
Las tormentas son menos volubles de lo que son, los mares menos caprichosos.
He picked up her purse from where it rested beside her and shook it gently. “In case you were concerned. All just as you left it.” She nodded. “Thanks. Although I guess whether I’ll ever get to use that marker is pretty up in the air right now.” “You should have let me eat her in that parking lot,” Gavriel said, raising his eyebrows.
Brave. – Cassel, to Lila.
I love you,” Severin said, looking up, looking at nothing at all, face exultant. “I love you like in the storybooks. I love you like in the ballads. I love you like a lightning bolt.
Do you seek out peril? One would think that years of being a mortal would have made you more aware of mortality.
Call tried to call.
He grips my shoulder. His fingers dig in the knotted muscles in a way that feels good. Brotherly.
The book turned out to be one she’d read before, where zombies chased around a brother-and-sister reporting team.