I saw finally the futility of all these gestures, that witchcraft is but a matter of focus-that one cann apply one's fierce and immeasurable energies to an act of choice.

We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.

Garden of Pain, I need you. What were the songs of beasts to the cries of sentient souls?

To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.

I like mainly to be invisible, to sort of drift around unseen in the world.

That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can't recall any sunrise before it. I watched the whole magnificence of the dawn for the last time as if it were the first. And then I said farewell to sunlight, and set out to become what I became.

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