Don’t trust anybody else—no matter how close you are to them.” (Eric)

Anyone could be anybody. (Eric)

Identity was everything, but it seemed I never had one. (Jessica)

Everything seemed so unreal—so supernatural—and I had to remind myself that is was. We weren’t human. We never were. (Jessica)

Just because I wasn’t human, didn’t mean I could discount human life. (Eric)

I didn’t even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn’t need one to know her. (Eric)

Shadows could be anywhere in blackness. (Eric)

One moment of true happiness was worth all the moments of pain. (Jessica)

Fate was a reality, but it wasn’t a beautiful or angelic thing. It was a heart-wrenching nightmare. And we’d fallen blindly into it. We had no escape. It was happening, and it was up to me to guarantee our survival of it. (Eric)