Vlad decided that teachers' ideas were a lot like bunches of garlic-intriguing from afar, but up close sadly sickening and, if you weren't careful, DEADLY.

Mmmmm. Warm chocolate chip cookies. Not even AB negative can compare.

Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.

Vlad had found himself longing to encounter those of his own kind, to travel to the streets of Elysia-that far away world, but after a while it seemed more of a fairy tale than anything else. Like Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, only with fangs.

The world is full of monsters with friendly faces.

Wrong. Enemies don't fight with such determined passion. That kind of focus is reserved for friends at odds with one another." pg 69 Tomas to Vlad

A label doesn't make something so. A label is just a word. It's what a person does that makes them who they are