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...But still, even now, to think of it, I feel something akin to that happiness. And I've more reason now than ever to say that happiness is not what ...more

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It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft ro...more

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For what can the damned really have to say to the damned?

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Because if God doesn't exist we are the creaturesof highest consciousness in the universe. We alone understand thepassage of time and the value off ev...more

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What mysteries we are, human, vampire, monster, mortal, that we can love and hate simultaneously, and that emotions of all sorts might not parade for ...more

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You let me handle Marius," I said. "Now, you didn't come without you dagger.""No, I did not," he said, lifting his cloak to reveal it, "And with your ...more

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Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.

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Alas, my being the James Bond of vampires isn't the whole issue. Vanity must wait.

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Ah, but prophecies have a way of fulfilling themselves,' Khayman said. 'That's the magic of it. We all understood it in ancient times. The power of ch...more

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After all, these were blood drinkers, beings who spoke gently, liked poetry, and yet killed mortals all the time.

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I had to have him, had to. Just the way I had to have everything I wanted; or had to do everything I'd ever wanted to do.

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To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us.

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I watched him rise from the coffin, with slow, elegant gestures; our gestures, for we are the only beings who routinely rise from coffins.

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Finally those you love are simply ... those you love.

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The music as always had a dark sweet luster, but it was more than ever like an endless beginning-a theme ever building to a climax which would never c...more