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Occasionally one succumbed to vanity and nostalgia and came in to reminisce, but it wasn’t common.
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof,’”
slipped on a pair of jeans, a fresh white blouse, and a black jacket. It was a familiar routine, and this was my habitual outfit,
fall look, slay
“Morphogenesis?”
$10 dollar word
“The book explains why we’re here,” she said, her voice betraying a hint of desperation. “It tells our story—beginning, middle, even the end.
Louisa loved plantation life. She invested in sugar—and slaves.”
Fucking Louisa!!
Normal’ is a bedtime story—a fable—that humans tell themselves to feel better when faced with overwhelming evidence that most of what’s happening around them is not ‘normal’ at all.”
I’m . . . craving her.”
“you wish that was you huh”
A vampire had to desire another creature more than anyone or anything else in order to mate, and cravings were rooted in desire.
“There’s more to the game than protecting your queen,”
“The king just sits there, moving one square at a time. The queen can move so freely. I suppose I’d rather lose the game than forfeit her freedom.”
Awwww
“A witch shouldn’t keep secrets from other witches. Bad things happen when she does.”
Hate her even more
“It’s just that vampire relationships are . . . complicated. We can be protective—possessive, even. You might not like it.”
I volunteer as tribute
“Forget most of what you think you know about vampires, Diana. This is just normal politeness. I’m not being held back by a mystical barrier standing between me and a fair maiden.”
The strongest distinguishing characteristic of humans is their power of denial.
“I was reborn a vampire in 537,
Damn he’s old af
I blinked, thinking of a vampire wandering the hallways of the Vatican.
“There’s no need,” Matthew said shortly. “It’s not your job to calm down. It’s our job to exercise a modicum of courtesy and control.”
“Ma vaillante fille,
Cambridge,
“As far as I can tell, there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning, year after year.” He hesitated, then continued. “One is fear. The other is desire.
;)
witchwind,”
“Dahr doesn’t get enough exercise either. This is exactly what he needs.”
“Whoever sees her dance, And her body move so gracefully, Could say, in truth, That in all the world she has no equal, our joyful queen. Go away, go away, jealous ones, Let us, let us, Dance together, together.”
Spoken like a vampire.
He soon craved the hunt more than the blood,
It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone.”
:(
Geneviève Mélisande Hélène Ysabeau Aude
BEST NAME EVER!!!
Matthew Gabriel Philippe Bertrand Sébastien
Remembering our play in bed that morning, my eyes closed against a sudden jolt of desire. I wanted him as badly here in the forest when he was about to kill something as I had this morning, and I began to understand what worried Matthew about hunting with me. Survival and sexuality were linked in ways I’d never appreciated until now.
“Vampires mate the way lions do, or wolves,” he explained, sounding like a scientist in a television documentary. “The female selects her mate, and once the male has agreed, that’s it. They’re mated for life, and the rest of the community acknowledges their bond.”
“My life now has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Everything before was preamble. Now I have you. One day you will be gone, and my life will be over.”
Her magic is bound up in necessity. Very clever.” He smoothed out his rumpled paper and resumed reading.
Since that time the women of the family have preserved the Bishop name, regardless of marriage or of who their father was.”
Now that answers my question.
