So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.

I dare say she means to keep you from his attentions. Your honour demands she be slain.

If you're Stephen King and you have a massive body of huge-selling well-respected work, you can pivot and do whatever you want. I don't have that body of work, I don't have that audience that's comfortable with me enough yet to follow my bliss with me.

Of all the weapons she had commanded, Elizabeth knew the least of love; and of all the weapons in the world, love was the most dangerous.

Real power... comes not from hate, but from truth.

I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.

Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?