Цитаты из книги The Delicate Dependency: A Novel of the Vampire Life

I seek solace in the sea. The land where we live is beautiful in a desolate sort of way. Dunaway Hall is an aerie on the cliffs overlooking the beach. There`s always the beach, the rugged beach. Here and there on the cliffs are disused mines, you know. They look like tiny abandoned castles. There are always the abandoned…

She was a rare flicker of life amid the dark and shallow creatures of the London night. At once fragile and wild, like a newborn colt. And yet, disconcerting, even magical, like a haunted china doll.

"There are things you are not ready for. One does not give a child a gun." "But wouldn`t it be better to teach a child to use a gun safely than simply to take it away from him?" "It depends on the gun."

You see, we are creatures of pure intellect. We have chosen a weapon we are fully prepared to allow our enemies to use as well - words and illusions. We always play fairly with our enemies. We employ a set of tacticts that never forces them or restricts their free will. We are of the opinion that through guile and bluff…

"As you must realize by now, Niccolo is one of those rare beings whom it is impossible not to be completely enamoured by. He truly is an angel, an earth angel to be certain, but something celestial glows in that face of his. That`s why Lodovico chose him, you know." Lady Dunaway became even more dreamy. "Oh, I`m sure…

Even if a man fails in life, if he makes one contribution to the betterment of society, he has fulfilled his purpose.

If you ever meet Lodovico you`ll see what I mean. His eyes sometimes seem to vanish in their very sockets, and all that`s left is darkness. In Italy we have a word for that, jettatura, or the eyes that transfix. They`re terrifying, and yet they seduce you, and once you`ve heard the foggy laughter that comes from that…

That isn`t to say that there isn`t basis to the legend. We do subsist primarily upon blood, but we don`t just go around leaving conspicuous marks on random necks. That`s dangerously flagrant. It starts panics and witch-hunts, and innocent people end up with silly things like stakes in their chests. The first law of…