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1 " Really, I’m not sure how your gender gets anything done. It isn’t even the tits that are the problem—yes, fine, they’re distracting—it’s the damnable lack of pockets that is the real issue here.” Bella looked down at herself and picked up the folds of her skirt and dropped them in frustration. “Is this a manner of repression I have been previously unaware of? That if we let you wear comfortable clothing that serves any functional purpose, you might revolt?” Maxine rolled over to lie on her back, watching the false huntress complain. “It’s quite possible. "
― Kathryn Ann Kingsley , Curse of Dracula (Immortal Soul, #2)
2 " Vampires, archdemons, fae, haunted circuses, ghostly magicians—I have a villain for you. "
3 " You poor mortal women are supposed to keep your bodies locked in a cage, but your heart is free to the first person who asks for it. And if you don’t grant it to them, it is you who are supposed to feel grief? How are you the villain here?” He sighed. “Your race is evil to make you feel such a way. "
4 " She shifted, tilting her head to the side, her hand tangling into the hair at the back of his neck. She welcomed what used to terrify her so greatly. She would happily share herself with him. She let her eyes drift shut as his teeth scraped her skin. His sharp fangs descended in hunger, but not before he whispered to her in adoration. “I love you, my immortal soul. "
5 " And every day she commanded Vlad to return to her. And every day he defied her. Each day she lay curled at his side, her fingers twisted into the lapel of his suitcoat. And every day he defied her. Until the day he did not. "
6 " Vlad Tepes Dracula stood atop a building in the city of Boston, the barely born and fledgling city of the new nation that had made such a noise upon its arrival. "
7 " Humans were meant to build. To aspire. To reach for the sun. And he had taken it away from them. Snatched it from the sky and pitched the city into the night. "
8 " I am not a vampire. I am far more, and far worse, than that. Within me beats the black heart of all that would splinter bone and pick their teeth with the remains. I am the river spring from which flows all cruelty on this Earth. And it was cruelty that made me. "
9 " It did not change the simple fact that he was death incarnate. Yet never allowed to die. "
10 " Any man whose mind was not clouded by hatred would have seen it a bargain to spare the life of a city in return for a single mortal woman. A woman who wanted to be at his side. "
11 " Death came to the city of Boston on crimson wings. "
12 " Death had come on crimson wings, and it had a name—Vlad Tepes Dracula. "
13 " The past is only ever lesser. What may come is all that will ever give us hope. "
14 " You met me in a dream. Now we shall see how you fare with my nightmare. "
15 " Master, may I speak frankly?” “Of course.” “Do you think you are worthy of love?” Vlad flinched. "
16 " Will you love me when all is said and done? Or am I beyond all salvation? "