Julie Kagawa

"The closer you got to someone, the more it would destroy you when they were inevitably gone."

"Ember was mine. The other half of me. And I would fight Talon, St George, and the entire d world to keep her safe."

"It always starts out that way,' Kanin said, and his voice was distant, as if remembering. 'Noble intentions, honor among new vampires. Vows to not harm humans, to take only what is needed, to not hunt them like sheep through the night."