“Its why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldnt have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living.”

“How was the light today?Big. Hot. Yellow-white. The skys blue was like a drumbeat. I watched the black tree shadows revolve. When the sun went down it was like someones hand was pulling it, very ge...”

“Nothing is the whole story. The selfs curse and the writers.”

“All vampires smoke. Smokings high on the list of Things You Take Up To Pass The Time.”

“... vampire ruler Hin Kahur implemented howler aversion therapy.”

“The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.”

“Did you just mentally pistol whip that guy, with his own gun? Nice, Amber. I would have just killed him.”

“Getting up from the bed, Dominick approaches me at a slow predatory pace. Once again, I cannot move my feet.”

“Goddamn it, do it yourself. Youre five hundred years old and you cant use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?”