The Viscount's Prey Quotes

“And that, my little journal, is the end of this story, for it is the beginning of another.”
― Julia Leijon, The Viscount's Prey

“Neither of us could exist without the other. We both understood that now.”
― Julia Leijon, The Viscount's Prey

“I had been his plaything, his victim. I had been reduced, body and mind, to nothing but his possession. And I had been glad of it. He had made me into someone who was glad of it. That much was still true, beyond my death: I was his. And he was mine.”
― Julia Leijon, The Viscount's Prey

“I remember once hearing a saying about vengeance, suggesting that if one wishes to pursue it they shall have to dig two graves. Looking at Mikhail, I saw the truth in that. This man had given up his own life in the quest to destroy another’s, and now he came to his moment of vindication.”
― Julia Leijon, The Viscount's Prey

“Vlad laughed a little. It wasn’t his cruel, dark laugh. “You and your logic. Even after everything, it’s your immediate touchstone.” “Especially after everything,” I countered.”
― Julia Leijon, The Viscount's Prey

“I hope with all my heart that you will find a life that is your own, too. It is the only kind worth living.”
― Julia Leijon, The Viscount's Prey

“I love you,” he murmured drowsily. The worst part is that I think he truly meant it.”
― Julia Leijon, The Viscount's Prey

“Vlad slumped forward onto me, easing himself off my cock and then curling against my chest with a sound like a happy purring rumble, burying his face in the crook of my neck.”
― Julia Leijon, The Viscount's Prey

“When we climaxed, it came like a crescendo. It was a consummation of the pact our bodies had made with one another.”
― Julia Leijon, The Viscount's Prey

“But it was his own neck that he marked, the cut welling up with blood that looked as fresh and red as any that flowed through my own living veins.”
― Julia Leijon, The Viscount's Prey

“I was obliterated by pleasure, reduced to nothing but a body designed for fucking and biting and using.”
― Julia Leijon, The Viscount's Prey

“Do you see now,” Vlad murmured in my ear, teeth grazing the shell of it. “Why the French call this ‘the little death’?”
― Julia Leijon, The Viscount's Prey

“The lust and fear was making my already addled head dizzy and dim; the whole world had narrowed down to his looming presence over me.”
― Julia Leijon, The Viscount's Prey

“My presence alone is an aphrodisiac for you? How flattering,” he said to me, wicked smile never wavering as his fingers reached my hip.”
― Julia Leijon, The Viscount's Prey

“Vlad is like a cat with a new mouse; he intends to draw out the poor creature's murder for as long as he still finds enjoyment in the game.”
― Julia Leijon, The Viscount's Prey

“Oh, Benjamin of the past, take heed: this place is not green, it is red and red and red, as red as lips and beating hearts and the pomegranate seeds Persephone was fool enough to swallow.”
― Julia Leijon, The Viscount's Prey

“But what good is the metaphor of Icarus and the sun, when the light of the moon or the flicker of candle-flames has replaced that golden orb of day so utterly? I have no wax wings to flee the monster’s maze. I cannot fly, but only fall.”
― Julia Leijon, The Viscount's Prey

“Vlad’s expression took on a fixed, false cast for a brief moment. Then his genial smile slowly curled into the kind I had, before then, only seen him wear in dreams. “Follow me.” I did. Heaven help me, I did.”
― Julia Leijon, The Viscount's Prey

“As would be the case with anyone in possession of their faculties, I immediately decided that I was being completely absurd.”
― Julia Leijon, The Viscount's Prey

“Every inch of my skin yearned to touch him, and I was no longer the moth in the spider’s web but rather that same poor insect under the thrall of a candle’s flame. He was that flame, and I wanted to burn to nothing, to be consumed entirely within him.”
― Julia Leijon, The Viscount's Prey

“It gives me a full-body sense of profound satisfaction, of rightness, to obey him.”
― Julia Leijon, The Viscount's Prey

“Denn die Todten reiten schnell,” Vlad murmured to himself. The particular cast of low light in the room made his smile gleam. I recognize the line, it’s from Burger’s “Lenore” – “For the dead travel fast.”
― Julia Leijon, The Viscount's Prey

“Their clothes were beautifully tailored and embellished with exquisite jewels, but there was an air of age and wear to the fine dresses, like that which surrounds carefully kept heirloom lockets and the inevitable patina that discolors them, even as the frozen beauties within stay perfect and unchanged.”
― Julia Leijon, The Viscount's Prey

“Anger is a far more bearable emotion than helpless loss.”
― Julia Leijon, The Viscount's Prey

“Considering how cloudy the days often are, it can seem at times as if the moon holds more power over the sky than the sun itself. Somehow the clouds always clear by the time the moon makes its entrance for the night, bathing the world in chill silver light.”
― Julia Leijon, The Viscount's Prey

“Transylvania' bodes to be very green indeed, judging by name alone. If my Latin serves me, it means 'beyond the trees'.”
― Julia Leijon, The Viscount's Prey