My ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.

I know,I can smell it, too.

there’s nothing more powerful than human fear—not magic, not vampire strength. Nothing.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed (Albert Einstein)

It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however.

I wanted to know how humans came up with a view of the world that had so little magic in it. I needed to understand how they convinced themselves that magic wasn’t important.

You persist in this romantic vision of what it is to be a vampire, but despite my best efforts to curb it I have a taste for blood.