I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.

I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.

Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.

To learn and to love, that is what we are here for, any activity which is not grounded in one of these two is a waste of time.

Let the spirits witness: for theirs is the knowledge of the future - both what it would be, and what I will: You are the Queen of the Damned, that's what you are! Evil is your only destiny. But at your greatest hour, it is I who will defeat you. Look well on my face. It is I who will bring you down.

In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glass eyes - a doll that had been found in an attic. I wanted to polish him with kisses, clean him up, make him evevn more radiant than he was. "That's what you always want," he said softly... "When you found me under Les Innocents," he said, "you wanted to bathe me with perfume and dress me in velvevt with great embroidered sleeves." "Yes," I said, "and comb your hair, your beautiful russet hair." My tone was angry. "You look good to me, you damnable little devil, good to embrace and good to love.