Despite what novels implied, vampirism did not make stalking sexy.

Vampires did not avoid mirrors because they cast no reflection but because mirrors became so unflattering with the illusion of fuzzy focus wrenched away.

The vampire community has enough problems. We don't need to add petty backbiting to it.

To a vampire, there is only selfishness.

Being kidnapped and abused by the undead was worse than calculus, but not by a wide margin.

We need the life… We need to know what we take left someone weaker or dead. It reminds us what we were. The Hunger when you start out, it isn't in the stomach or brain. You want to kill because you hate that others get to live.

She could never understand why creatures of darkness had the slightest interest in spineless human girls.

Sunlight dusts them; Water is damp; Crosses pain them; And beheadings cause cramps—