Andra

“And then, because it was the middle of the night and I was slightly delirious, that bizarro Comic Sans website from the vampire vigilante group popped into my mind. "I've got it. You're a vampire fugitive, aren't you."
"I..." He cleared his throat. A nervous laugh. "How did you know?"
I snorted. When he'd told me he was a fan of practical jokes, he hadn't been kidding. "Got it. You're a vampire fugitive." I flopped back down onto my pillow and threw an arm over my eyes. "Look. It's late, and I don't really care what your deal is. I just need to know you aren't going to hurt me. Can you promise me that?"
"I swear that I would never hurt you," he said, more earnestly than I'd ever heard him say anything.
"Excellent," I said. "Then we're good." Whatever the real thing was that he was too nervous to tell me, if it didn't implicate my physical safety, it didn't matter. The only requirements for this fake boyfriend role were having a pulse, not being a serial killer, and willingness to go along with my plans.
It sounded like he fit the bill.”
― Jenna Levine, My Vampire Plus-One

“He also said that leaving you when he did is one of the hardest things he's ever done. He placed special emphasis on the word hardest, but out of concern for my own sanity, I refuse to analyze why that might be."
My cheeks flamed at the double entendre.”
― Jenna Levine, My Vampire Plus-One

“Against the sky, the stars crown him, marking the edges of his silhouette like he is a constellation of himself.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe