With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: “I will not be nothing.”

Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous," suggested Jack.

It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.

My kind [vampires] does not surprise easily," he said. "You surprised me, this morning. I have thus used up my full quota of shock and consternation for some interval." I stared at him. "You made a *joke*." "I have heard this kind of thing may happen.

It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little time preparing the one that must follow it.

It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone who needs further explication of this eccentricity can find it usefully set out in the first pages of W. Somerset Maugham's story "The Book-Bag.

[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.