#vampire

They obviously weren't trying to recruit us, which was sort of a shame. I imagined a full unit of vampire soldiers and I got a little giddy, and distracted. Bad idea, maybe. But it'd be epic, wouldn't it? ↗

— Cherie Priest

#imagination

Do you imagine that they're going to issue me a citation...what was your name again?" "Still Eve." "No, I'm sure it's something else. That doesn't seem right. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#eve-rosser #morganville-vampires #myrnin #rachel-caine #imagination

I never imagined being undead would be so much work,” Jeff lamented. “Being a ‘vampire’ takes no work at all,” Timothy emphasized vampire. “It’s surviving that takes all the work. ↗

— Ben Tousey

#dracula #undead #vampire #imagination

Vladimir did great things—so could she. Besides, they come first, right?" "Not always." I stared. I'd had they come first drilled into me since I was a child. It was what all guardians believed. Only the dhampirs who'd run away from their duty didn't subscribe to that. What he said was almost like treason. "Sometimes, Rose, you have to know when to put yourself first. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#vampire-academy #love

Forever is a really long time, you know? What do you do with forever?" "The same thing you do when you don't have forever." He smiled wanly. "Live. ↗

— Amanda Hocking

#ezra #forever #inspirational #my-blood-approves #vampires

There's an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer that I've been thinking about a lot while writing this essay. In it, Buffy sacrifices her own life to save her sister, and right before she does, she tells her sister that the hardest thing to do in the world is to live - ironic words coming from someone about to kill herself for the greater good. As I'm writing this, I just keep thinking that Katniss never gets to sacrifice herself. She doesn't get the heroic death. She survives - and that leaves her doing the hardest thing in the world: living in it once so many of the ones she loves are gone. ↗

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#hunger-games #death

In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#fiction #supernatural #urban-fantasy #vampire #life

At least I could tell she wouldn't try to kill me in my sleep now. ↗

— J.L. McCoy

#vampire #jealousy

Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#last-sacrifice #life #richelle-mead #sonya-karp #vampire-academy

You undo me, Merit. Wholly and completely. You don't take me at my word. You challenge me at every opportunity. And that means when I'm with you, I am less than the head of this House...and I am more than the head of this House. I am a man." He stroked my cheeks with his thumbs. "In my very, very long life, I need you more than I have ever needed anything. ↗

— Chloe Neill

#life