Loretta

“All her violence had drained away, replaced by a fear older and deeper than anything she'd ever experienced. An old, old recognition. Something inside her knew him from a time when girls took skin bags to the river to get water, a time when panthers walked in the darkness outside mud huts. From a time before electric lights, before candles, when darkness was fended off with stone lamps. When darkness was the greatest danger of all.”
― L.J. Smith, The Hunter

“Well, now, look at you, is that a halo? Did you get canonized while I wasn`t looking? Am I addressing St. Stefan now?”
― L.J. Smith

“I am what I want to be," he said. "You forgot that— and that was your mistake.”
― L.J. Smith, The Kill

“Arthur," she said, "there are some things quite beyond your powers."
"Yes, I know," he said steadily. "But if no one ever tries to strive against them no one will ever succeed. We must simply do our best, you know. And hope.”
― L.J. Smith, Heart of Valor