As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us.

You are someone worth loving

A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.

Don't you see? It is a new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil.

When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you.

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

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.