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

And my heart beat faster for the mountains of eastern Europe, finally, beat faster for the one hope that somewhere we might find in that primitive countryside the answer to why under God this suffering was allowed to exist - why under God it was allowed to begin, and how under God it might be ended. I had not the courage to end it, I knew, without that answer.

You are someone worth loving

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.

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

Cities have distinct personalities. It's a matter of knowing it.

And I loved this moment for all it's pain...We seemed for a moment like two parts of the same thing.