“Id like to sit there, I said softly to the girl sitting in front of the other mirror. She scampered. I took over her abandoned make-up and painted my face. Red cheeks, to attract hungry vampyre gla...”

“The lanterns filled the sky, pulsing with the harmonious light of fireflies, and a great host of ghosts departed from the earth to join them. The higher they rose into the zenith of the heavens, th...”

“The Bloodsucker Queen has lived for what, a millennium? She can wait on her decaying ass a little while longer.”

“Were only five years apart, I said defiantly. If you look at some of those dysfunctional vampyre relationships, were near normal.”

“–We are all dying– she told me. –Even something of the immortal will die–“What?”–Meaning–”

“I’d like to sit there,” I said softly to the girl sitting in front of the other mirror. She scampered. I took over her abandoned make-up and painted my face. Red cheeks, to attract hungry vampyre g...”

“Where there is life, there is hope.”

“Even as she began to slip into the gloaming of her life, the primal need to liveto survive...clawed at her soul.”

“All love is immortal.”

“It was nostalgic in that painful way nostalgia could be”

“We cannot escape the longing, no matter what life we choose. Were either longing for people, places or times gone by, which are essentially the same things: memories. And, whether or not we travel,...”

“What seems real one moment is fiction the nextand gone out of existence the moment after that.Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth,and change our only constancy.”

“How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.”

“Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.”

“What a sad story, I thought for so long. Not that I now think it was happy. But I think it is true, and thus the question of whether it is sad or happy has no meaning whatever.”