“His character is like an emerald—multifaceted and enhanced by inclusions.”
Melika Dannese Lux“Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldn’t understand why, since she had very little character left to defend.”
Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura“I’m not asking for your forgiveness. I have done no wrong according to my kind. I never meant to turn you. I just wanted to have a little fun with you before they took you away.”
Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura“Stefan needed me. Ha! Stefan needed me, as what? His next meal?”
Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura“Don’t listen to the ramblings of fools,” he said, smiling grimly. “When it comes down to it, if they knew the truth, no one would want to live on this earth forever.”
Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura“I had lied to myself from the very beginning, deceived myself into believing that I was being fanciful and overly imaginative. Surely such monstrosities only existed in nightmares? Yet I had lived through a nightmare these past months, and that was no dream at all. I was still fighting against the awful truth, not wanting to give in, searching my mind for a logical explanation—but there was none. And the most horrible realization of all was that I had known, somewhere deep inside, ever since the day I first set eyes on Vladec Salei. Plague carrier. Living death. Drainer of life. The phrasing did not matter. No euphemism could strike fear into the hearts of men the way that single word ”
Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura“I know the consequences, Manon,” Ilyse conceded. “I know the fate you endured might one day be my own. But I refuse to be a prisoner for the rest of my life.”
Melika Dannese Lux, City of Lights: The Trials and Triumphs of Ilyse Charpentier“Darkness enveloped us again, and for the first time in years, I welcomed it.”
Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura“How does one go on after doing such unspeakable things? It'sall rather simple, really," he continued, speaking in someone else's voice. "Say to yourself, 'What things?' And it becomes clear...you are blameless. They brought it on themselves. What have they ever done for you except control your life? They tore you away from your sister; they ripped you from your home. Did you ask to be saved? No! Forget them and start over...with us, your true family, my Corcitura, my own.”
Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura“She is so tiresome. ‘Am I a vampire, am I a wolf, am I a vampire, am I a wolf, I cannot decide, so I’ll be both!”
Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura“I’ve read about this in books, imagined it in my mind countless times since I’ve been here, but to actually witness it is something entirely different. I thought I was prepared, but nothing—no amount of book learning or supposed life experience or bravado—can make you invulnerable to the sight of a vampire drinking blood.”
Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura