“Sometimes that’s what it takes. Putting it all out there and hoping love wins.”

“Never, even in his wildest dreams, had his imagination come close to the reality of her.”

“Sometimes that’s what it takes. Putting it all out there and hoping love wins.”

“Freedom you earn is more powerful than freedom handed to you.”

“She came out of nowhere like a two-by-four against the skull, knocking all common sense out of him and turning him into a walking woody.”

“Claire, if you don’t move, I will have served two tours of duty only to die in this bed.”

“She needed him. More than just his blood or the pleasure he offered with his playground of a body, she needed him—and that was far more terrifying than becoming a blood sucking monster.”

“For the first time in his centuries of life, doing the right thing didn’t seem like the right thing to do.”