"This is why I stayed away,' he growled against my mouth as his hands started to rove over me with knowing, ruthless passion. 'Can't be near you without wanting you. Can't stop myself anymore."

"My parents were dismayed by my love of horror movies as a young girl, then even more dismayed when I kept rooting for Dracula to win instead of Van Helsing."

"And there is my payment the rubies in your cheeks. Are you properly scandalized by your wicked behavior? If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to. Do you remember making me swear to repeat all those naughty actions agian, no matter what you said this morning?' Now that he brought it up, I did recall saying that. Great Betrayed by my own immorality. 'God, Bones...some of that was depraved.' 'I'll take that as a compliment.' He closed the distance between us.'I love you. Don't be ashamed of anything we did, even if your prudery is on life support."

"Would you mind repeating that? I'm afraid I might have lost my wits altogether and just hallucinated what I've longed to hear."

"Winston Gallagher!' I said, recognizing the first ghost I'de met. Then my eyes narrowed & I covered my hand in front of my crotch as I saw Winstons gaze fasten there next. 'Don't even think about poltergeisting my panties again'. 'This is the sod? Come here you scurvy little--' 'Bones don't!' I interrupted. He stopped, giving a last glare to him while mouthing YOU. ME. EXORCIST. before returning to my side."

"All right, you got that out of your system. Can I get back in the boat without you striking me again? Or should I stay out here enjoying the marine life?'Why don't you swim around until you find a shark? Then you can discuss how much the two of you have in common."

"If you run from me, I will chase you, and I'll find you...."

"You can run from the grave, but you can't hide."

"Usually my form of turning someone down was shoving a stake through his heart while smirking, Gotcha!"

"I resisted the urge to hurl my plate at him. 'Of course not, Ian. It's just that normally at this hour, Bones and I are fucking like rabbits, so I get twitchy when I have to wait for him to climb aboard."

"Do I feel ancient to you now?' he murmered. 'Too different from the person you loved before you knew this?' Her eyes were already glowing green, and her full lips parted. 'No, you don't feel too ancient.' Her voice was husky. 'Or too different. You feel like mine. Whoever you were, whoever you are...you're mine.' Mencheres smiled, his fangs stretching to their full length. 'So you have spoken, so it shall be decreed. For all eternity."

"You can hear my dreams? God, you must never get any quiet. I'd be shooting myself in the head if I were you."

"I think this'll definitely tide me over while we're apart,Bones laughed, dragging me into his arms with far more strength and quickness than was fair, considering I still had trouble making my limbs operate.'Oh, Kitten, he murmured as his lips dragged down my throat. 'You didn't really think we were done, did you?"

"Cat, you asked me before to find out if those dream -suppression pills had any side effects. I've checked with Pathology, and they said you might experience depression, mood swings, irritability, paranoia, and chronic fatigue. Have you noticed any of that?"

"I have been stabbed, shot, burned, bitten, beaten unconscious too many times to count, and even staked. None of those held a candle to the pain I felt at seeing his mouth on hers."

"Before you go,mate,turn on the telly. Something raunchy too. Think I'll rub off one before I go to sleep."

"For some, vampires are still firmly in the 'evil, scary' column. However, in recent decades, vampires also run the gamut from evil to morally ambiguous all the way to fangless and vegetarian. I think part of their appeal lies in their versatility. Vampires can be the villain, the hero, and everything in between, all depending on the writer's whim. You'll also never hear me say that anyone is doing vampires 'wrong' because unless a real vampire stands up and sets the record straight, it's anyone's game as a far as defining them in fiction."

"A human hires a hit man to kill his cousin for money, boring. That same hit man botches the job twice, funny. Then the desperate hit man sends a ghoul after the girl to finish things up, my curiosity's piqued. That same ghoul ends up with his head cut off by a mysterious redhead . . . Ah. Now I'm interested."

"First bubble baths. Now Disney parks. You're shattering every creep vampire myth I've ever heard."

"Flowers and jewelry worked for most girls as a romantic gesture, but here I was, misty-eyed at watching him show my mother how to stab the shit out of him."

"As if Spade's chivalry would allow him to do anything to a woman. The harshest punishment she could imagine him dishing out to Cat would be refusing to open a door for her."

"It's alright, Kitten, Bones said. 'He won't shoot. Tate lowered his gun, even as the sudden dizziness from blood-loss made me sway. Bones took my gun and casually handed it to Juan, who gapped at him in amazement. 'You called her Kitten? And she let you? She put me in a coma for three days when I called her that. My balls never recovered from her smashing them into my spine. 'And well she should have, Bones agreed. 'She's mine. Kitten, and no one else's."

"I am offering you a real commitment- a place in my life forever. Even if our relationship ended, our tie to each other never would. Let me make you a vampire, Leila, and watch decades slide by like days while you're by my side."

"Kitten, your hands are heaven and your eyes are my home."

"It was the sort of bone deep emotion that made him want to hold her tighter with one hand, and draw a sword against the world with the other."

"There is no way I'm going out in public like this!It seemed while I was being tormented at the salon, Bones had been out shopping. I didn't ask where he got the money from, images of old folks with their necks bleeding and their wallets missing dancing in my head. There were boots, earrings, push-up bras, skirts, and something he swore to me were dresses but only looked like pieces of dresses."

"Before we go, I gotta know: If mind-reading abilities are real, there's something else I wondered if fiction got right about vampires-'Ask me if I sparkle and I'll kill you where you stand,' Bones cut him off with utmost seriousness."

"Don't care for her tongue, do you? How strange. I find it one of my favorite parts.Bones to Gregor."

"Much slower, I turned around to see Vlad examining his fingernails, as if his hands weren't still ablaze in the flames that had blasted the ghoul's head off moments before.'what the hell was that?' I gasped.'Premature inflammation,' He replied. 'Happens sometimes. Very embarrassing, I don't like to talk about it.'"

"Charlie whistled 'Amazing Grace' as he drove. It was all I could do not to whip my head around and snap, Are you kidding me? Couldn't he pick something more appropriate, like 'Shout at the Devil' or 'Don't fear the Reaper'? Some people had no sense of the proper music for a kidnapping."

"Nathanial can show me how to better control the change, but even so, you never have to worry about me turning into a cat again. Didn't you know, I'm allergic to cats."