True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.

There is no time for grief; there never is.

Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned.

He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.' I lean over. My hair smothers him. 'Then you should never have been born,' I say.

My whole life had been an uninterrupted act of loving him.

One does not beg for a glass of water from the devil.

I am a vampire. Blood does not bother me.