The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.

When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn’t it?

Chris Nielsen: Thank you for every kindness. Thank you for our children. For the first time I saw them. Thank you for being someone I was always proud to be with. For your guts, for your sweetness. For how you always looked, for how I always wanted to touch you. God, you were my life. I apologize for everytime I ever failed you. Especially this one.

Heaven would never be heaven without you.

Quiet is here and all in me. ("Dress of White Silk")

Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. (“Death Ship”)

Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he knew that, like the vampires, he was anathema and black terror to be destroyed. And, abruptly, the concept came, amusing to him even in his pain. ... Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.