“I just want some time, Mikhail, to think things through. Its frightening, the way I am about you. I think about you every minute; I want to touch you, just to know I can, to feel you beneath my fin...”

“You're the kind of man my mother warned me about.”

“Monique whirled around and ran to her husband. Pray with me, pray with me. We are going to die this night, Alexander. Raven shut the door and leaned against it. Dont panic on me, Monique. We have a...”

“-Mikhail?...Try making suggestions next time, or just plain asking. You go do whatever it is you're doing, and I'll go search you extensive library for a book on manners.-You will not find it.-Why ...”

“If you are a vampire, then a vampire is not the creature of the legends.”

“Someone needs to drag you kicking and screaming into this century.”

“As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working ...”

“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, andin spite of True Romance magazineswe shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do no...”

“I never really understood the word loneliness. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.”

“This music ebbs and flows, irregular, sad. It reminds me, weirdly, of watching the ocean during a bad storm, the lashing, crashing waves and the spray of sea foam against the docks; the way it take...”

“He hid in the crowd, she hid in herself.”

“And it is because we all of us know of this sombre power and its perilous manifestations, that we stand in so deep a dread of silence. We can bear, when need must be, the silence of ourselves, that...”

“Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.”

“For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty.Now I am pretty lonely.”

“I missed him so much that it felt like a physical pain in the area below my ribs. I opened my mouth to accommodate it. I put my hand to it. A hollow, aching, piercing place.”