We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet.

You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature?

A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.