Michelle Leighton · 278 pages
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“I mean, it's not like he's Damon Salvatore hot”
― Michelle Leighton, quote from For the Love of a Vampire
“You shine like the sun and you move like water. Your eyes are the perfect mix of gray and brown, like fog in the woods, and you smell like lilacs in the summer. I think if you laughed, it would sound like music.”
― Michelle Leighton, quote from For the Love of a Vampire
“Are you saying that your in love with me?"
"My God, yes!" He flung his arms wide in exasperation.
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“He taught me to stand up for what I believe in, to shout it out at the top of my lungs. He taught me to feel—the deep, gut-wrenching, heartbreaking, soul-singing kind of emotion I had avoided for so long. He taught me about the importance of life. He taught me about the beauty of death. He also taught me about love.”
― Michelle Leighton, quote from For the Love of a Vampire
“Avoidance is never the answer. Yes, life is all about pain and trouble and frustration and anger, but it's also about love and friendship and good days and sunshine. You can't have one without the other. If you avoid pain, you avoid living.”
― Michelle Leighton, quote from For the Love of a Vampire
“You said you couldn't stay away from me.”
― Michelle Leighton, quote from For the Love of a Vampire
“She was just trying to make it through life with a part of her heart missing. We all were.”
― Michelle Leighton, quote from For the Love of a Vampire
“There was a sadness just beneath the surface of his pleasant expression. It drifted across his face like a ghost moving through the vacant rooms of an empty house.”
― Michelle Leighton, quote from For the Love of a Vampire
“I was surrounded by people who required an incredible amount of focus and attentiveness from everyone else around them. They were like solar panels and attention was like the sun. They absorbed it, absorbed us, and trust me, it’s not easy being the sun.”
― Michelle Leighton, quote from For the Love of a Vampire
“He imagined the door to a sad, empty room closing with a faint click, never to be opened again, and that calmed him a little.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, quote from The Devil All the Time
“The abbot told me once that lying was a betrayal to one's self. It's evidence of self-loathing. You see, when you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie to hide it rather than accept yourself for who you really are. The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you. It's like when a man would rather die than be thought of as a coward. His life is not as important to him as his reputation. In the end, who is the braver? The man who dies rather than be thought of as a coward or the man who lives willing to face who he really is?”
― Michael J. Sullivan, quote from The Crown Conspiracy
“(I think I fell in love with you when you were shouting at Romeo and Juliet, 'Don't touch each other!')”
― Iris Murdoch, quote from The Sea, the Sea
“There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.”
― Carson McCullers, quote from The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
“I don't like to feel so crazy about someone," he said. "I don't like to feel like my happiness is so tied up in another person.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, quote from Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
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