America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.

But there are others of my kind...those who see themselves as lions among sheep. As kings--superior to man in every way. Why, then, should they be confined to darkness? Why should they fear man?

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

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

It was a sort of peace I have rarely enjoyed since. As if we were the only two souls on earth—all of nature ours to enjoy. I wondered why a creator who had dreamt such beauty would have slandered it with such evil. Such grief. Why He had not been content to leave it unspoilt. I still wonder.

Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.

Surely life has taught you that a thing can be both beautiful and vile.