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“Some men drink the blood of other men, all I drink is wine.”
“Josie, like Gretchen, isn't afraid of blood. What woman would be?”
“I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his hearts blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.”
“Blood is really warm,it's like drinking hot chocolatebut with more screaming.”
“The stuff of nightmare is their plain bread. They butter it with pain. They set their clocks by deathwatch beetles, and thrive the centuries. They were the men with the leather-ribbon whips who swe...”
“Where got she her sullen mouthAnd where her swaying form?Would she live on eggs and applesWhen the blood of men is warm?(The Young Witch)”
“I have seen an evil thing this night,' he said; 'I have seen how the dead drink the blood of the living. And the blood is the life.”
“I will come,' the priest answered, 'for I have read in old books of these strange beings which are neither quick nor dead, and which lie ever fresh in their graves, stealing out in the dusk to tast...”
“If he had learned anything from his fathers fate, it was to win, no matter how you did it. It was not important if someone else was hurt, or killed. If you won, you would be forgiven anything. You ...”
“Jesus Christ shed His blood so we could have a life filled with victories”
“Lee leaned closer to her and swore he could smell fear coming off her in waves, the way a shark smells blood in the water”
“As she felt his fangs against her neck, she was in another world. There was screaming. A woman was somewhere in agony. Everything was black, and the tormented scream was overwhelming, echoing throu...”
“I stumble across the sea of tarmac, finding pavement, concealment and a brick wall. Palms brace against the scrubby surface. My stomach churns and then bubbles over, burning my throat as acrid yell...”
“The road up and the road down are one and the same." Heraclitus”
“As he sat up, he heard soft dripping sounds from the bathroom, little plips like water slipping over the edges of the tub and into the floor. The hairs on the back of his neck rose as he realized w...”
“His voice was oily and slick as it poured from his mouth like liquid acid, threatening to hook onto the woman's hair like a fishing hook and drag her back to death.”
“With heightened senses it remained motionless and looked through bulbous eyes. It could taste fear in the air. Pheromones. Sweat. Food was near, but more importantly, so was its new home.”
“Blood began to flow, at first cautiously, as if embarrassed by its appearance; a few thin red lines exploring the gravitational trajectory of its new terrain. Now it flowed faster, steadily stainin...”
“You did thirst for blood, and with blood I fill you”
“The first morning Simon had been at Amatis's house, a grinning lycanthrope had showed up on the doorstep with a live cat for him. "Blood," he'd said, in a heavily accented voice. "For you. Fresh!"S...”
