Even the good angels, I think, would inspire in humans some sort of fear.
I think angels definitely offer all the imaginative possibilities that vampires do, and I think they've actually been popular in Western culture for longer than vampires have been. I hope they become a part of the culture again in a new way.
One is but a shade of the other.
Maybe that is what marriage is: Two people creating a cult together.
That's l'amour: we willingly walk into the future blindfolded.
I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.