Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.

Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?

Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.

I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.

But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength. It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God.

It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import.

Take me away from all this Death.