It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli

There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.

He's no more human than I am, ma petite." At least I'm not dead." That can be remedied.

There are things that can harm a lot more than physically.

I'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how wonderful it was.

Edward's grief if you die will be a terrible thing. It will hurt him, a lot, and men like him never grieve alone. He will spread his grief all over us, not because we failed, but because it'll give him something to focus on so he doesn't have to feel the pain.

I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies