If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it.
It was small consolation, but it would have to do. I squeezed his hand once more, in lieu of things unsaid. Come on. 
Vampire in real life aren't like the ones in the movies. They weren't going to be playing baseball in a thunderstorm. 
I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie. 
One does not reckon, at such times, the cost to one's limbs and joints; there is a limit to the pliancy of the mortal form. 
Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland 
There is as much deception in noise as there is in silence 
It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion 
To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting 
Alas for we who are mortal, and are denied the luxury of dramatic license. We mus live, and go onward. 
I can see patterns in events, and behaviors; in mathematics, I follow slower 
Never before had I used my service to escape any woes that troubled me, but I did that day. 
If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you. 
In the arts of covertcy, it is death to second-guess oneself. 
A Night-Blooming Flower, a Tsingano witch-boy, and a ... a Cassaline whatever. This is what Ysandre sends me. I must be mad. 
We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike. 
I never forgot, never, that it had been he who, with two words, turned my deadliest flaw to a treasure beyond price. 
The world began in ending, and it will end in beginning. 
And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade. 
If the greatest danger one faces as a slave is displeasing one's masters, this is the second: pleasing them. 
Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. 
Genius requires an audience. 
Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved. 
All paths are present, always ... and we can but choose among them. 
There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves. 
Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death. 
Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear. 
We might embody those qualities we desire to possess by embracing them, over and over, until the line between seeming and being is no more. 
A small kindness, a confluence of compassion, had saved his life. Was that strength, or a weakness? 
There is no folly like the folly of the wise. 
What does it mean to be good? 
where power intersects with pleasure, there is danger. Adepts 
One must gauge one's trust carefully. 
If I'm to be damned for what I've done, I'll be damned in full and not by halves. 
But slight mistakes accumulate, and grow to gross errors if unchecked. 
For the keeping of secrets from adults is oft the only power a child may hope to possess. 
Your goddamn bloodsucking boyfriend's been promising to change you for eight years!" Jen said grimly. "Wake up and smell the plasma, Beth! 
Night breeds its own sort of anticipation. 
You have given us a part in a story the bards will sing to our children's children. 
He nodded at Josceline and me. Keep these two with you, will you? They seem to be damnably hard to kill. 
I love you, and I would choose to be with you whether in a slum or a cave or a palace. 
Having a literary agent makes a huge difference in submitting work. My agent has access and tremendous passion. 
Love as thou wilt 
Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing 
A little truth seasons a lie like salt. 
Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight. 
Take your happiness where you find it, children, and don't ask too many questions. Life is too short and uncertain to do otherwise. 
No two sacrifices are the same, and yet all are, in the end. It is the commitment to belong, wholly, to that which claims one. 
That which yields is not always weak. 
We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on. 
Her always is mine 
Happiness is the highest form of wisdom. 
Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake. 
Somewhat to my surprise, there were several polite golf claps. Vampires. 
Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours? 
Poetry glories in excess. When it's not extolling the virtues of austerity. 
I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer 
We are alike, Joscelin and I, in that what we do, we do very well. 
Ben Lewis. He's in Afghanistan.""He is?" I blinked. "In the army?"
"Well, he's not there on his honeymoon.
If I have one pride in my calling, it is that I have never judged a patron wrongly - and I have never failed to recognize a patron upon meeting. 