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I am your sire. I am to guide you through your first days as a vampire. Your first feeding is a rite of passage, a sacrament. It will not be wasted on some hormone-driven frenzy. This is why I wanted you to feed from me.”“ I will not drink it in a house, I will not drink it with a mouse. I will not drink it here or there, I will not drink it anywhere, ” I wheezed, hoping I was able to communicate adequate sarcasm through the crippling belly cramps.“ Did you just quote Green Eggs and Ham? .Molly Harper

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Does Hallmark make a “Sorry I tried to drink your blood and touched you in a vaguely inappropriate manner” card? I settled for “How much do you remember?Molly Harper
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I was just turned last week. I'm a librarian." He stilled, as if I'd just told him I was the inventor of the tube top. "I watched a movie about a librarian once. Well, she was a librarian by day, a call girl by--" I stopped him with a quick lift of an eyebrow. "If you finish that sentence, we cannot be friends.Molly Harper

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Wait, Richard Cheney, as in Dick Cheney? You're a vampire named Dick Cheney? Somehow, that makes you seem more evil.Molly Harper

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My grandma Ruthie, Jettie's sister, had been married four times, so many times I started calling every old man I saw at the grocery store Grandpa.Molly Harper

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Misery, thy name is MudslideMolly Harper
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You are the night."" I am the night, " I repeated." You are the night." I cocked my head, sending him a questioning look. "I am the night?"" Jane! "" Why is it that when you say my name, it sounds like a curse word?Molly Harper

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Are you going to answer my questions, or do I have to whack you with a stick until delicious candy surprises fall out?Molly Harper
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If looks could kill...well, Dick was already dead, so nothing would happen. But Gabriel was not laughing." See Dick, " Dick said, pointing at his chest. He then swept his hand dangerously close to mind. "Jane. Dick and Jane. Come on, you humorless jackass. That's funny.Molly Harper
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I fixed your car, " he said, tossing the keys from a jade dish on the little maple end table. I palmed them and eyed him speculatively. "You fixed my car?"" I have walked the earth for more than a century. I managed to pick up some skills along the way, " he said, before reluctantly adding, "and one of them is finding skilled mechanics." I smirked, leaning against the wall. "You almost had me there."" I supervised, " he insisted.Molly Harper
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And soon we were just rolling around on the ground, cursing and screeching and ripping out handfuls of hair. Without super hearing, I wouldn't have heard Zeb whisper, "This is the coolest thing I have ever seen."" Maybe they'll get muddy, " Dick said. "Please, Lord, let them get muddy.Molly Harper

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Zeb was kindergarten teacher--a good one. I always thought it was because he was the same emotional age as his students.Molly Harper
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You want to stab me again, don't you?" He didn't look at all ashamed. "Think of it as testing the limits of your new abilities." I groaned. "I've created a monster."" I don't think someone who recently crawled from the grave should be throwing around labels like 'monster, '" he said, making sarcastic little air-quotes fingers. "It wasn't a grave, " I sniffed. "It was a comfy four-poster.Molly Harper

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Leaving knots untied and scattering seeds to distract them will only work on vampires with OCD.Molly Harper
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I always hoped for this spark of chemistry and compatibility, a flash of clarity to let me know that this was the guy, this was the time, so I should leg go and enjoy myself. But it never came. And by no small coincidence, neither did I.Molly Harper
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Why not? If you're not going to let me see you naked, we might as well be girlfriends."" You're a twisted little man."" Come on, Stretch, share with the class."" No! " I laughed." Prude."" Perv."" Schoolmarm."" Some other word that essentially means perv.Molly Harper
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Don't worry about being nervous. A lot of vampires have trouble with this from time to time. It happens to everyone."" If I was a forty-year-old man suffering from erectile dysfunction, that would be a great comfort to me, thanks.Molly Harper

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Dick called, but he just left dirty voice-mail messages. Let's just say if I'm ever in the market for a massage involving canola oil and marabou feathers, I'm covered.Molly Harper
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Most of the people you read about being turned meet vamps in clubs or over the Internet...Ew, did you...?"" Yes, I met a vampire on the Internet, went to his evil love den, and let him turn me, because I'm that brainless.Molly Harper

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I grabbed my purse, which was conveniently place by the front door. Gabriel was such a considerate abductor/host. He even left the front door unpadlocked.Molly Harper