It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.Collection: Missing
If you thought eighth grade was tough, try it with fangs and a fear of garlic.Collection: Trying
The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.Collection: Heartbreak
Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.Collection: Teacher
Bullying is a horrible thing. It sticks with you forever. It poisons you. But only if you let it.Collection: Bullying
Sometimes you have to be alone to think, and sometimes the best place for thinking isn't home.Collection: Home
Vlad's heart sank into his stomach, then squeezed its way down his leg and popped out of the hole in his shoe, where it struck the floor and broke.Collection: Heart
People fear what they can't understand and harm what they fear.Collection: People
The world is full of monsters with friendly faces.Collection: Friendly
A label doesn't make something so. A label is just a word. It's what a person does that makes them who they areCollection: Doe
... but if I've learned one thing, it's this: forgiveness is crucial. If you can't forgive someone you're mad at, that anger will poison you. You have to learn to let it go"... "people have reasons for doing the things that they do, especially when they care about you. You may not always understand what they are, but if you can try to understand the person then you might see that they really care, despite what happened." pg 100 Meredith to VladCollection: People
Vlad decided that teachers' ideas were a lot like bunches of garlic-intriguing from afar, but up close sadly sickening and, if you weren't careful, DEADLY.Collection: Teacher
Live and everyone would die. Die and everyone would live. It seemed like such a simple choice. But nothing is ever as simple as it seems.Collection: Simple
Vampires,after all,don't sparkle.Collection: Vampire
Because pieces of your heart clearly weigh more when they're sitting shattered at the bottom of your stomach.Collection: Heart
It was tough attempting to be social with people who'd rather pretend you didn't exist.Collection: People
If stakes and garlic were the top two things that could kill a vampire, ninth grade gym was a close third.Collection: Two
Vlad made a mental note to amend the friend code: thou shalt not date the girl that thy best friend has a crush on...nor shalt thou try sticking thy best friend in the chest with a sharp hunk of wood.Collection: Crush
When will it begin, anyway?" Sirus held his gaze for a moment, his eyes full of concern- a concern that Joss didn't understand. "Probably sooner than you're ready for." "When's that?" "Well." Sirus sighed, as if doing the math in his head."It'll take us about three minutes to gather this stuff and get to the cabin, and another two or three for Abraham to realize you're here. So I'd say you have about seven more minutes of freedom left.Collection: Eye
I drive well! Says who your mom? No actually, she won't even get in the car with me.Collection: Mom
A word of advice, if I may? Explosions are an excellent way to kill the undead. But you should probably take a few steps back first, kid.Collection: Kids
Mmmmm. Warm chocolate chip cookies. Not even AB negative can compare.Collection: Chocolate
Funny how mishearing things-or not hearing them at all-can really screw things upCollection: Hearing
Joss's ears perked up. He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books and dust and happy solitude quite like a library did.Collection: Book
Lesson #456 of high school life: Never, EVER trust an alarm clock.Collection: School
Vlad had found himself longing to encounter those of his own kind, to travel to the streets of Elysia-that far away world, but after a while it seemed more of a fairy tale than anything else. Like Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, only with fangs.Collection: Encounters
I'm a creature of the night for God's sake And she wants me home by eleven?Collection: Home
According to his dad's journal, vampires had been through some of the worst epidemics in history. And apparently, during the days of the Black Plague, their biggest complaint had been rotten "food".Collection: Dad
Growing older is mandatory, but growing up is optional.Collection: Growing Up
Morning, sunshine." Vlad blinked at her. "Morning, sulfuric acid." "Pardon me?" "Well, isn't it just kinda wrong to call a vampire 'sunshine'?Collection: Morning
Someday, my young friend, you'll find out that girls are actually people too. Just like you and me.Collection: Girl
If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.Collection: Race
She raised a sharp eyebrow at him. "Vlad, no offense, but look at you. If you're not a vampire, you're clearly the most anemic goth I've ever seen."... "We believed you. Because that's what friends do." pg267 October to VladCollection: Eyebrows
Henry held up his taco- formerly Vlad's- and grinned. " Little known fact, gentlemen. Tacos are the food of genius." pg248 Henry to Vlad & JossCollection: Gentleman
Could you get O positive this time? That's my favorite.Collection: Time
Wrong. Enemies don't fight with such determined passion. That kind of focus is reserved for friends at odds with one another." pg 69 Tomas to VladCollection: Passion
Kid, not everything in life can be summed up neatly in a paragraph. No book has all of the answers. Not even the really good ones. You have to find the answers yourself sometimes.Collection: Book
Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand.Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle.Collection: Hands
this is the best year ever because i am reading the chronicles of vladimir todCollection: Reading
I'm too tired to reign over vampirekind, let alone enslave the human race.Collection: Tired
Don't you find any irony in a vampire sucking up?Collection: Vampire
Vlad twisted his wrist, pinching his fingers together, spinning the bronze coin on the table. When it fell, he picked it up and did it again, counting. Thirty-two times it had fallen Slayer Society up. Twenty-two times it was down.Collection: Two
Henry shrugged. "I've kissed plenty of girls." "I'm not talking about your mom,dork.Collection: Girl
Dude, you're a vampire. EVERY day sucks for you.Collection: Vampire
Getting staked had been a hard lesson in choosing one's friends wisely.Collection: Lessons
Vlad blinked, unsure where her question was coming from and, more importantly, where it was going.Collection: Unsure
Otis D'ablo is alive! Do you here me? He is alive and trying to kill me!Collection: Trying
Do you believe i am the Pravus?Collection: Believe
Nothing could convince Aunt Nelly to let Vlad stay home for the duration of the school year, which just goes to prove that parents and guardians don't care if they're sending you to face bloodthirsty monsters, so long as you get a B in English.Collection: Home
To his amazement, he could already hear Henry snoring in the backseat. That guy could fall asleep on a car trip to the mailbox.Collection: Fall