When we mated I felt your heart stop beating and it was as if the world had stopped turning. It was only while surrounded by death that I realized I had never felt more alive.

I want to be your last thought at night, and your first taste at dawn.

We feel most alive when we are closest to death.

We're all hunters in my family, you know. Deer, ducks…damsels.

The villains were always ugly in books and movies. Necessarily so, it seemed. Because if they were attractive—if their looks matched their charm and their cunning—they wouldn't only be dangerous.

They would be irresistible.

Don't tell me it's going to fucking be okay! I am not okay with being that fucker's pinata!