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.

…being an atheist required discipline very like that of being Catholic. One could never yield to the idea of a supernatural authority, no matter how often one might be tempted. To think that a personal God had made the world was to yield to a demonic and superstitious and destructive belief.

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

I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.

I was good and bad, but never wicked.

Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.

No matter how rudely someone treats you, remain kind. Walking away at peace with yourself is worth it.