Holy fu-” he starts then catches himself.”Yes,this tithe will be most pleasing to her Goodness.” Me and Magnus exchange amused glances.
For the record, I would have made a very lousy romance heroine.
Curiouser and curiouser, as Alice in Wonderland would say…
Once a generation there is a girl born who is destined to slay the vampires.
So not only do I have to go out and fight evil villains, I have to take up woodworking, too?
I never said becoming the slayer would be a field trip to a Justin Bieber concert.
It’s just a party, right? What could possibly go wrong?
But you have to take control of your destiny. And sometimes that’s not easy.
Eternity is a long time and it doesn’t always work out that way,” Jareth says, a bit bitterly. “It’s worse to love someone and then lose them, then to never love at all.
And then he kisses me. Yes, the beautiful vampire, the dark general, the one who never gets close to anyone, leans in and presses his lips against mine. This kiss is soft. Gentle. Light. Like a butterfly’s wing whisking my lips.
Real men don’t kiss with the gentleness of a butterfly’s wing.
They should install elevators in this place. What if they turned a handicapped person into a vampire? Talk about your discrimination lawsuit waiting to happen.
O-kay. Kind of freaky. I’m now standing in an actual tomb, in pitch darkness, with only a vampire to keep me company. Last week if you’d sworn on a stack of Bibles that I’d be okay with all of this, I wouldn’t have believed you.
You know, being bitten by a vampire one week before prom really sucks. No pun intended.
Now Sunny, don’t get mad, but …” Rayne begins, her voice trembling. I shoot her an angry glare. “But WHAT, Rayne?” “I, uh, think you’ve accidentally been turned into a vampire.
I was dying, I realized vaguely. There was no getting out of that. The vampire author would be drained dry by a vampire. It was almost a poetic way to go.
OMG, RAYNE! THAT’S SO CRAZYPANTS! I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU OF ALL PEOPLE ARE NOW THE SLAYER! YOU’RE LIKE SOME SUPERHERO OR SOMETHING! DO YOU GET POWERS LIKE BUFFY? AND MORE IMPORTANT, DO U GET TO HOOK UP WITH SPIKE? YUM!
SPIDER: I guess you’ve got a point. RAYNIEDAY: No, I’ve got a stake, LOL.
Can we cut the Zen crap for a moment?” I ask. “I’m trying to beat this bag to a pulp.
…I think I might die if I don’t kiss you right now. A real-life kiss.