Quotes from the Character Tau from the Relica Enchanted Novella Series

• “One, will I make it there safely, without having to find out if you are strapped, and two, how far you live, because you may live far, and for someone in my state of health, I don’t want to overdo it with walking…”

• “You have that choice now: life or death. Isn’t your love for me stronger than death? Let me take care of you, this is how we can be wedded. I want to give you all that I am, and all I have to offer. I adapted to your world as best I could, was with you through it all, wouldn’t you do the same for me?”

• “Relica, some things hurt to speak of. I left my past in the past, buried it like a corpse with an unmarked grave, never to look back. I don’t want to ever speak of such things. I understand your curiosity and concern; I just can’t talk about it…”

• “Contrary to what you think you already know, or have witnessed in the movies, or read in books, vampires are an advancing species, which is why our species has not gone extinct. We have evolved with the times, and new technologies that we have adopted and produced ourselves.”

• “What do you mean? What do I want from you? It’s not about what I want from you, I love you. It’s about what I want to give you. I want to make a life with you, why can’t you understand that? Do you resent me that much? Then why did you accept this gift, -this lifestyle?”

• “Is this your version of play fighting or foreplay?”

• “You are dead,” he told me. “That is a power in itself, with no reflection, no need of heat to live, only blood and dark, two things humans tend to fear or be repulsed by; that in and of itself is a power.”

• “Own what you feel…” he said. “And then feel the pleasure of the pain…healing.”

• “My purpose for living is to love you.”

• “You are all the beauty that lies in death,” he whispered in my ear…

• “Something I have always wanted, but have not the capability to create or give you. This life in you is a gift, and as long as your blood courses through her veins, she is a child of mine, as you are created by me, she too, -half of her -exists through me as well… she too, is my descendant… I know there is another… And another half of her not akin to us, or what we are… I suspected another man -human…but with a heartbeat so expeditious, I doubt it… I know not beast or demon-”

• “I wanted you to, Nia. Nothing has to change, I still love you, and I will love and protect all my generations, no matter what form they may come in… you are blood of my blood, love of my love. When will you understand, I mean you no harm and only long for your happiness in whatever way I can bestow it?”

• “Does he fuck you like this?”