Quotes from book

The Van Alen Legacy

“You are healed." Allegra nodded. "You are no longer a Silver Blood." She paused. "But you are no longer a vampire either."
Bliss started. No longer a vampire-but what did that mean? Did it mean she was just human?”

“Do not cry for me, Azrael. Do not waste your tears. You made your decision. And this is mine. Sacrifice seems to be my destiny. A funny thing for a selfish man, isn't it? They always called me weak back then…”

“Maybe she'd been drinking too much of the super-sweet Mexican Coca-Cola they had down here. Or maybe she was just tired, alone, and far from home. Because somewhere in the brittle, concrete center of Azrael's dark heart, something was melting.”

“Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.”

“It was so nice just to live in the moment, to enjoy holding him so closely, to pretend for a little while that they were merely two young people in love and nothing else.”

“Bonds are like rules, they're meant to be broken.”

“You're late," she said, tapping her watch.
"No, you're just early.”

“Schuyler pulled Oliver close and hugged him tightly. "Thank you," she whispered. Thank you for loving me enough to let me go.”

“You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.”

“Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.”

“She can't let him go not telling him what she was about to do.

Kingsley… I can't do this. I'm coming with you.”

“I don't trust an organization that would make policy out of fear.”

“She was a stranger in her own life, a tourist in her own body.”

“They did it for love, and sometimes love makes us do the irrational.. even the inexcusable.”

“The world in your mind is as real as the world outside of it.”

“Memories were moving pictures in which meaning was constantly in flux. They were stories people told themselves.”