All that we see or seem, Is but a dream within a dream.
-Edgar Allan Poe
"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark burn out in a brilliant blaze than it be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet."
-Jack London
You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come.
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
"Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be."
-Fannie Brice
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking up at the stars."
-Oscar Wilde
The lips which will be markedly full and red are drawn back from the teeth which gleam long, sharp as razors, and ivory white.
-Montague Summers, The Vampire, His Kith and Kind (1928)
Vampires provided a perfect mirror of the worst fears of the pious and perfect. Vampires were dangerous, sexually rampant, enormously powerful, absolutely unconcerned about human dignity and preservation of the soul, and finally...dead. And it was this last aspect of their nature that made them the most fascinating to legend-makers.
-Dunn Mascetti, Manuela. Vampires: The Complete Guide to the World of the Undead
"We've trivialized the vampire. I think it happened about the time 'Count Chocula' found its way to cereal boxes."
-F. Paul Wilson, author 'Midnight Mass' a vampire novella
"How typical of humans... Your eyes are clouded so you cannot see...... Even though the truth is always within you..."
- Vampire Princess Miyu
"I am powerful, I am immortal, I can do anything, I am cursed, I am the Darkness"
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