"I'm with the vampires, of course."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"How old are you?"
"Seventeen," he answered promptly.
"And how long have you been seventeen?"
His lips twitched as he stared at the road. "A while."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"'That's all right, i fend for myself pretty well. Watch me hunt.'
I found a bowl and a box of cereal.
-Bella to Edward"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Don't be afraid." I murmured.
"We belong together."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"Could a dead frozen heart break It felt like mine would... Could a dead frozen heart beat again? It felt like mine was about to." -Midnight Sun"
— Stephenie Meyer (Midnight Sun)

"Our relationship couldn’t continue to balance, as it did, on the point of a knife. We would fall off one edge or the other, depending entirely on his decision, or his instincts. My decision was made, made before I’d ever consciously chosen, and I was committed to seeing it through. Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. It was an impossibility."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay in the middle of the floor. Of course, the pan slid away. Eric scowled.
I'd finally found something Eric did poorly."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead as a Doornail)

"I'm gonna kill him," Eve said, or at least that was what it sounded like filtered through the pillow.
"Stake him right in the heart, shove garlic up his ass, and-and-"

"And what?" (Michael)

"When did you get home?" Claire demanded.

"Apparently just in time to hear my funeral plans. I especially like the garlic up the ass. It's...different.""
— Rachel Caine (Feast of Fools)

"Crap, are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

"I'm thinking we have about fifteen vampires and no blood," Claire said. "Is that it?"

"No, I was thinking we're out of chips. Of course that's what I was thinking."
— Rachel Caine (Feast of Fools)

"Goddamn it, do it yourself. You’re five hundred years old and you can’t use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?"
— Anne Rice (The Queen of the Damned)

"There was this about vampires : they could never look scruffy. Instead, they were... what was the word... deshabille. It meant untidy, but with bags and bags of style."
— Terry Pratchett (Monstrous Regiment)

"I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew."
— Anne Rice (The Queen of the Damned)

"That's brain tissue. How can you-?" Claire shut her mouth, fast. "Never mind. I don't think I wanna know."

"Truly, I think that's best. Please take it." He showed his teeth briefly in a very unsettling grin. "I'm giving you a piece of my mind."

"I so wish you hadn't said that."
— Rachel Caine (Feast of Fools)

"Jealous?"

"Maybe."

"No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse."
— Rachel Caine (Feast of Fools)

"Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth."
— Anne Rice (Memnoch the Devil)

"The rich and powerful always seem to perfer the tops of buildings. Hasn't anyone ever explained to them that higher just means you have farther to fall? -- Anita Blake"
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Blood Noir)

"Reluctantly, I pulled out my necklace and showed it to them.
Samuel frowned. The little figure was stylized; I suppose he couldn't tell what it was at first.
"A dog?" asked Zee, staring at my necklace.
"A lamb," I said defensively, tucking it safely back under my shirt. "Because one of Christ's names is "The Lamb of God.""
Samuel's shoulders shook slightly. "I can see it now, Mercy holding a roomful of vampire at bay with her glowing sheep."
I gave his shoulder a hard push, aware of the heat climbing to my cheeks, but it didn't help. He sang in a soft taunting voice, "Mercy had a little lamb...""
— Patricia Briggs (Moon Called)

"I've won Satan's lottery."
— Christopher Moore (Bloodsucking Fiends)

"...I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Guilty Pleasures)

"Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think.

Did that sound hopeless? It didn't feel hopeless. It felt reassuring. It felt - real. - Anita Blake"
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Blood Noir)

""Yo, cop. We're heading for Screamer's. You wanna come?"

Butch looked up at the doorway. Vishous was in the hall with Rhage and Phury behind him. The vampires had expectant looks on their faces, like they honestly wanted to hang with him.

Butch found himself grinning like the new kid who didn't have to sit alone at lunch after all."
— J.R. Ward

"Vampires, real vampires, didn't nibble on the necks of nubile young virgins. They tore people to pieces and sucked the blood out of the chunks. "
— David Wellington (99 Coffins: A Historical Vampire Tale)

"In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home.
It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard.
I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume."
— Anne Rice (Interview With the Vampire)

"Sometimes it would be nice not to have to do my best. Sometimes it would just be nice not to have a crisis to deal with. - Anita Blake"
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Blood Noir)

"The Lone Ranger of vampires. Did that make me Tonto?"
— Robin McKinley (Sunshine)

"Carlos: So, what, were they psychos, or...
Seth: Did they look like psychos? Is that what they looked like? They were vampires. Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are! "
— Quentin Tarantino (From Dusk Till Dawn)

"Vampires do breathe, by the way, but their chests don't move like humans'. Have you ever lain in the arms of your sweetheart and tried to match your breathing to his, or hers? You do it automatically. Your brain only gets involved if your body is having trouble. Fortunately there was nothing about this situation that was like being in the arms of a sweetheart except that I was leasing against someone's naked chest. I could no more have breathed with him than I could have ignited gasoline and shot exhaust out my butt because I was sitting in the passenger seat of a car."
— Robin McKinley (Sunshine)

"I'd been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them." Anita Blake"
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Danse Macabre)

""I'm just being practial. I knew someday I might have to bare my throat to you. Pete and I discussed that very possibility. As for the danger and risk taking, that's what Pete pays me to do. And you and I both know he inteneds to get his money's worth."
"Jasmine, I cannot-"
"Why not!"
"Because you are not food!"
I stared at him for a minute; the I started to grin. I couldn't help it.
"Vayl"-I tried to keep my face straight- "I'm not asking you to eat me.""
— Jennifer Rardin

"Vampires, like virgins or priests, are things that women believe in. We must never fail to humor them in such matters."
— Brian McNaughton

"They told of dripping stone walls in uninhabited castles and of ivy-clad monastery ruins by moonlight, of locked inner rooms and secret dungeons, dank charnel houses and overgrown graveyards, of footsteps creaking upon staircases and fingers tapping at casements, of howlings and shriekings, groanings and scuttlings and the clanking of chains, of hooded monks and headless horseman, swirling mists and sudden winds, insubstantial specters and sheeted creatures, vampires and bloodhounds, bats and rats and spiders, of men found at dawn and women turned white-haired and raving lunatic, and of vanished corpses and curses upon heirs."
— Susan Hill

"'There will never be slaves in Britain,' Godalming continued, 'but those who stay warm will naturally serve us, as the excellent Bessie has just served me. Have a care, lest you wind up the equivalent of some damned regimental water-bearer.'

'In India, I knew a water-bearer who was a better man than most.'"
— Kim Newman (Anno Dracula)