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

Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it.

I find at moments I'm as fragile as glass.

A perfect world or a world destroyed, one or the other- someday will come the end of hell.

What I have always wanted more than revenge is to bring the other person to recognition of the pain they caused, so they essentially say, "I will never do that again."

Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.

My last sunrise. That morning, I was not yet a vampire. And I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely; yet I do not think I remember any other sunrise before it.