I might have to drink the blood of animals to stay alive, but I would never feast on one of my own kind, no matter what Mr.Crepsley said, or hows much my belly growled.

Even a minute of dying is better than an eternity of nothingness.

Quick! Head for the ground floor! We have to get out! We will die if we stay! The vampires are here!" "Haven't you got a hug for me, Larten, old buddy?

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.

The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you.

For a long time that's all I could do, howl and scream and cry like the wild animal of the night that I'd become.