I’m the only authentic Vlad. Everyone else is merely an envious imitation.Collection: Imitation
I hadn't expected to be kidnapped today or I'd have worn something more conservative.Collection: Today
The cool thing about being a writer is: you get to make stuff up. When I started wring about Vampires, I realized, I can take everything i did like about that mythology and anything I didn't like, I didn't have to; because until a real Vampire stands up and says, 'you've got it wrong,' it's anyone's game.Collection: Real
We have to leave!" I said to Vlad. "Now." "Run, Forest, run!" Vlad mocked. "Stow it, Drac," I snappedCollection: Running
Trying to wake you,” Bones answered crisply. “I cut you, threw water on you, slapped you, and set a lighter to your legs. For future reference, which one of those do you think worked?” “Good God,” I hissed. “No wonder I thought you were Death incarnate in my dream, and that made me run toward Gregor at first!Collection: Running
Any situation was better faced with an empty bladder, a clean body, and a lack of morning breath.Collection: Morning
When I remember you, Randy, I'm going to smile, not cry. You're a part of me. One of the best parts. I just wanted to tell you that." She stopp up, brushing the headstone once more. "And if you meet someone called Giselda," she whispered, "tell her she's still part of Spade, too. A beautiful part. Please thank her for that.Collection: Beautiful
Well, what did I expect? S&M didn't stand for soft and mushy?Collection: Wells
Wasn't it time she risked getting hurt again, instead of just accepting the numbness of never letting anyone in?Collection: Hurt
He's clean," Ritchie announced. Chance wrinkled his nose with mild distaste. "Can't say the same about you. Really, man, soap is nothing to fear.Collection: Men
I'll miss you forever.' Blake - Devil To PayCollection: Forever
He tasted like sin made into wine: dark, heady, and impossible to resist.Collection: Wine
You probably love to tell kids to get off your lawn, too.Collection: Kids
This is our true tie," he whispered, his breath falling hotly onto my lips. "You're meant for me, and I will have you.Collection: Fall
You arrogant, overpublicized, showy old bat, what are you waiting for? Aren't you the king of all bogeymen? The legend children fear will devour them if they misbehave? Come on Vlad, live up to your reputation! If you can't burn to death one Egyptian vampire chained to a wall how did you ever drive the Turks from Romania?Collection: Kings
If I’d known you were such a lush, I’d have given you the cheap stuff. Going to go out with a bang, are you?Collection: Bangs
I stared at him in silence. There were so many things I wanted to say. Like, How could you think what I feel for you is only physical? or, Don't you know you're my best friend? and finally, Bones, I love-Collection: Thinking
The clock struck eleven and cat the vampire huntress was on the loose, except my battle armor was a push-up bra, curled hair, and a short dress. Yeah, it was a dirty job, but I was going to do it. Come one, come all, bloodsuckers! Bar’s open!Collection: Jobs
You can hear my dreams? God, you must never get any quiet. I'd be shooting myself in the head if I were you.Collection: Dream
God, Bones, you must have argued yourself blue in the face.Collection: Blue
One corpse, extra crispy! Do I hear a thousand dollars?Collection: Dollars
Then I went to the morgue and saw that those bones weren't yours, heard your voice again in my head" -his eyes closed- "and once more, nothing else mattered.Collection: Eye
Miffed, I poked him in the chest. 'You think you know everything?' His hands caressed my back. 'Not everything, but some things. I knew without a doubt I'd fallen in love when we met. Then I knew I'd do anything to make you feel the same way.Collection: Thinking
...you don't care because you're all that and I'm just an artery in a dress.Collection: Dresses
Why don't I just give you a pair of my panties to hang around your neck? Then whenever you feel jealous, you can wave them at whoever's pissing you off.Collection: Jealous
More of that hair-raising energy rolled out of Vlad, until I was rubbing my arms to chase the tingling sensations away. Was this what Marty meant when he told me vampires could measure each others’ strength by feeling their auras? If so, then Vlad’s had Badass: Do Not Engage written all over it.Collection: Badass
We had to play the hand we were dealt, all of us. Fighting the battles we could win.Collection: Fighting
Some things are worth the cost of their consequences.Collection: Cost
I forgive you, but only because you said 'please.'" Smartass, I thought. Then I groaned at the instant chorus of "Please!" mixed with cries for release from Vlad's prisoners. No wonder he got so sick of the word. "I'm only merciful to one person a day," he threw over his shoulder. "As the saying goes, today isn't your day and tomorrow doesn't look good, either.Collection: Sick
Why did you tell her I'm your boyfriend? Why doesn't she know about your real one? - Timmy He's English! And Mom...Mom hates foreigners! - CatCollection: Mom
And that, Annette, is called PilatesCollection: Pilates
Let's go, Kitten, before you kill someone else. -BonesCollection: Bones
Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, what if? All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.Collection: Reading
Why did he have to be so gorgeous? Why did he have to stand so close, and why did I still love him so much?Collection: Gorgeous
I missed you every minute this week and I don't want to spend another day without you. If my mom disowns me for being with a vampire, then that's her decision, but I've made mine, and I won't apologize of back down from it.Collection: Mom
You’ll never get rid of me, either… No matter which side of the grave we’re on. I’ll haunt you, chase you all around eternity, whatever it takes, but it’s you and me until the stars burn out.Collection: Stars
I’d want our wedding to be special. I don’t have a dress, you don’t have a best man, and instead of flowers, we have corpses on poles decorating the front of the house.” “Flowers are on the way, as is my best man, three seamstresses are ready to make any dress you desire, and I’ll have the corpses taken down,” he replied without missing a beat.Collection: Flower
The dungeon image helped. "You need to let Maximus go," I stated, my voice stronger now. "No. Wine?Collection: Wine
Maximus grunted. "Some days you remind me of Vlad." "Meaning?" I said sharply. "Your obsession with revenge. Next you'll want to drive a pole through that vampire once you find her." The thought was appealing, but...Collection: Revenge
The servants must wait like ninjas for me to leave so they could render this place spotless again.Collection: Waiting
Family is always irreplaceable, even when they’re also irreconcilable.Collection: Irreplaceable
He was impolite while making a point? This is Vlad the Impaler. His points usually come at the end of a long pole.Collection: Long
There's nothing to catch up on. You came, you saw, you scored, you left. End of story.Collection: Stories
I love you. You have no idea what you are worth to me.Collection: Love You
I dare because I want no misunderstanding between us. I am everything you think I am, but I love your daughter, and what I love, I protect with all of the violence in me, which, as you've guessed, is considerable.Collection: Daughter
We're, ah, taking a break to evaluate things, and, um, reexamine our relationship, so I stuffed him in a closet!" I burst out in shame. Timmie's eyes goggled. Is he still there?Collection: Eye
My father was English. He date-raped my mother so she's hated English men ever since. You know my boyfriend's English, and I'm, uh, I'm half-English, which she's never been real happy about. If she finds out I'm dating someone English, she'll ah, think I' turning my back on her and becoming a foreigner.' Cathy, that's the stupidest reason I've ever heard.Collection: Mother
Will the real Red Reaper please stand up?Collection: Real
The last thing that you need to fret about is my feeling emasculated, Kitten; but talk is cheap, so I'll be sure to show you later." ~BonesCollection: Feelings