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

Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?

The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.

... what I fear in writing is the safe decision.

Mortal beauty often makes me ache, and mortal grandeur can fill me with that longing...but Paris, Paris drew me close to her heart, so I forgot myself entirely. Forgot the damned and questing preternatural thing that doted on mortal skin and mortal clothing. Paris overwhelmed, and lightened and rewarded more richly than any promise.

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world -- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in "to love" or "to learn" it does not have value.

You were the vampire in my dream. My perfect one.