" It wasn't just my beast's hunger, but Jean-Claude's blood thirst and Richard's craving for flesh. It was all that and the ardeur running through all of it, so that one hunger fed into the next in an endless chain, a snake eating it's own tail, an Ouroboros of desires. "

― Laurell K. Hamilton , Narcissus in Chains (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, #10)