It's so easy to wish for death when nothing's wrong with you! It's so easy to fall in love with death, and I've been all my life, and seen it's most faithful worshippers crumble in the end, screaming just to live, as if all the dark veils and the lillies and the smell of candles, and grandiose promises of the grave meant nothing. I knew that. But I always wished I was dead. It was a way to go on living

I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.

Fear is only good when you have a choice in things.

Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there.

Some mysteries are simply irresistible,” she said. “They have components that alter a life.

As if the night had said to me, ‘You are the night and the night alone understands you and enfolds you in its arms’ One with the shadows. Without nightmare. An inexplicable peace.

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