I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.

How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my weariness upon his irresistible yet indomitable strength? Is he not the wizend funeral spirit of a dead man in a child's clothes?

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

I felt ravaged, and with both hands in a fantasy I reached out for her figure as we ran together through the meadow which belonged only to us and to which these others could never be admitted."Oh, inocent love," she said even as she drank from me, "oh, innocent innocent love."

I will write things, he was thinking. I will write something meaningful and wonderful someday. I can do that. And I'll dedicate it to you because you're the first person who ever made me think I could.

And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.

I think all of us ordinary mortals tend to mythologize people as good-looking as you.