#blood

I growled and then slapped him. "Hey!" His hand pressed to his cheek. "You always say that when I slap you," I said. "I think it's a problem that you know what I say when you slap me," he said. "That's not the kind of intimacy I'm looking for. ↗

— Andrea Cremer

#calla #shay #intimacy

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 #madelaine-bradburry #reality #revelations #stefan-belododia

You know what we call pedestrians in Morganville? Mobile bloodbanks. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#claire-danvers #eve-rosser #michael-glass #mobile #morganville-vampires

Promises. I was drowning in promises. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose-hathaway #rose-hathaway

I would spar with the boys at school. This guy I had a crush on, we called him Spitfire -- I gave him a bloody nose and lip, so needless to say the romance did not work out! ↗

— Ashley Greene

#fighting-for-love #love

The hands on the clock never faulted, not for a second. One day ended; and a new began. If there was one thing on this earth that could be counted on, it was that. Time never paused to mourn the dead. That particular privilege is allotted to the living. It is for the survivor to mourn, bury the dead, and leave the rest to the earth. That is they way of it – the way of death - and the misery it leaves behind. ↗

— Patti Roberts

#death #death

I know the theological answers, but do my blood and my pulse? ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#blood #body #pulse #theology #theology

Christianity happens when men and women accept with unwavering trust that their sins have been not only forgiven, but forgotten, washed away in the blood of the Lamb. Thus, my friend archbishop Joe Reia says, "A sad Christian is a phony Christian, and a guilty Christian is no Christian at all. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#forgiveness

Then, I guess, I can only hope that you will change your mind. But I will love you, without a doubt, for all eternity. ↗

— A.M Hudson

#paranormal-romance #vampire #change

A thick, intense fog was rolling in from the ocean, which created long, strange shadows to form like creatures of their own kind. (From Bitten - a vampire book I'm working on) ↗

— Keira D. Skye

#love #romance #vampires #vampires-movie #young-adult