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1 " Beware, William of Mercia, you heeded not our warnings and you can no longer turn back, but the path ahead is strewn with danger, to you, and to those who travel with you. This is but the beginning. The legions of the underworld await you, armies will seek to destroy you, but only you can know the true course. "
― K.J. Wignall , Blood (Mercian Trilogy, #1)
2 " It was as if the city itself was preparing for some impending catastrophe. There had always been talks of ghost and darkness here, even in his boyhood, and now that darkness seems to be seeping from the stones and timbers as much as it was descending from heavens. "
3 " Don't you see? The catastrophe is me. My very existence is an affront to everything that is natural and good. "
4 " If I didn't taste like dinner, I'd kiss you right now." "If you didn't taste like dinner, I'd kiss you back. "
5 " The more that's known about the world, the more people seem determined to search for what is lost or hidden. There are archaeologists, treasure hunters, and ghost hunters--the legions of the curious--searching for secrets and the places that hold them. They ignore the possibility that some secrets are best kept, some places better left untouched.... "
6 " You know, I don't think I've ever met anyone quite like you. You're like some old-fashioned knight." "Thank you, though it's been a while since I killed a dragon. "
7 " He wanted to believe her, but more importantly he believed in her because she knew already that he was quite lost, more lost than she would ever be, and yet she still believed in him. "
8 " It was instinct that drove him to hibernate, not choice, but he would have chosen it at that moment anyway because he saw that blood had nothing to offer him but more of this, standing in the shadows, watching other people live. "
9 " You're nearly eight hundred years old and here you are, sitting on our sofa, and you're a vampire who needs our help. Of course. "
10 " If there is a God, He abandoned me a long time ago. "
11 " It's hard for me to describe the terror I felt upon waking because I knew only one thing and knew it instantly, that I was in the grave. "
12 " She almost looked in danger of being won over, but as if remembering her former frostiness, her face hardened. "
13 " She stared back at him, and he knew they didn't have very long, that he had to get away from there quickly. But he didn't rush her because he knew that she'd seen things she should never had witnessed, and that right now, she was making the biggest decision she would ever make. "
14 " Oh well, back to the crypt, I suppose. "
