Secret Vampire

You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.

You know, you've never really cared about anyone," he said. "But someday you will, and it's going to hurt. It's going to hurt a lot.

My first kiss and I'm comatose. Great.

Poppy had known for years that she was going to marry him. It was one of her two great ambitions, the other being to see the world. She just hadn't gotten around to informing James yet.

You won't find Earth people, quite the easy mark you imagine

All the talking in the world couldn't even prove you and the other person both saw the same color red.

He was the smell of winter rain and the sound of his predator’s heartbeat

You don’t love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.

Even if we're not together, we'll never really be apart.

I love you. I'll love you forever. But I have to do this.

She knew his secrets, knew him inside out. Humans could never know each other that way. They could never really get into another person's head. All the talking in the world couldn't even prove that you and the other person saw the same colour red.

She let herself fall backwards into the music, and it was like falling in a dream, without fear. It was like being a raindrop falling into the ocean that had started you.

Merging like two drops of water. Together in a way that humans could never know.

At the last moment she thought, I'm not ready. But she already knew the answer to that. Nobody was ever ready.

I don't need him to comfort me or tell me it's okay. I can make it okay, myself. Maybe that was what happened when you faced the very worst thing in the world. She'd lost her family and her old life and maybe even her childhood, but she'd found herself. And that would have to do.

You don’t love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand. . . .

You don't love somebody because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song that nobody but you can understand.