Karate-chopping ninjas in a mudslide?” Tamara gave Aaron and Call a dark look. “Could you guys try to lay low?
What she did know was that normal was a lot more tempting when it was out of reach.
Moments before she planted a massive kiss right on his mouth. Call’s eyes went wide. Hers were closed as she leaned into him. They stood like that for a moment. Call was aware that people were staring at them – Tamara looking shocked, and Aaron, standing near her, started to laugh. Call was pretty sure Aaron was laughing at the fact that Call, having no idea where to put his hands, was waving his arms around like a squid underwater.
It’s you I love,” he says. ”I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.
Her tragedy, if she had one, was to be as normal and average as any child ever born.
It was enough to make her want to sit down on the ground and cry. It was too much. But there was no one else, so it couldn’t be too much. It had to be exactly enough. It had to be what she could handle, and she had to handle it.
Things will be as they always are,” he tells me. “Only more so.
Remember what your father said about magic, boy. It’ll cost you everything.
She tastes like every dark thought I’ve ever had.
Vampires were fairy tales and magic. They were the wolf in the forest that ran ahead to grandmother’s house, the video game big boss who could be hunted without guilt, the monster that tempted you into its bed, the powerful eternal beast one might become. The beautiful dead, la belle mort.
Lucien,” Gavriel said, “if you’re proposing a duel, I believe she gets to pick the weapon. I hope she picks me.
In the mortal world, when I thought you were my enemy, I still missed you.
Except that I have no marketable skills other than swinging around a sword and making up riddles, neither of which probably pay all that well.
I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.
You’re awful.” He said it as though he was delighted. “And the worst part is that you believe otherwise.
Come be angry at a nearer distance.
She swallowed his blood, a dark vintage from some forgotten cellar. She felt like Persephone in Hades, pomegranate seeds bursting against her teeth, juice rolling on her tongue, and the more she had, the more she hungered.
Yeah, Cardan should definitely trust you more. You seem really trustworthy. It’s not like you’re actually currently betraying him.
Stories like that were will-o’-the-wisps, glowing in the deepest, darkest parts of forests, leading travelers farther and farther from safety, out toward an ever-moving mark.
Tana would sit near the door to the basement with fingers in her ears, tears and snot running down her face as she cried and cried and cried. And little Pearl would toddle up, crying, too. They cried while they ate their cereal, cried while they watched cartoons, and cried themselves to sleep at night, huddled together in Tana’s little bed. ‘Make her stop’ Pearl said, but Tana couldn’t.