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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)

A world of "if"s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time... but I couldn't. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future.

A world without pain, loss, betrayal, hate, death, loneliness? Impossible!

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

But I also slaughtered you real mother and father. In a moment of mad rage, I took their lives and left you an orphan. If you choose to take my life as a payment for theirs, you will be within your rights and no vampire will hold it against you. Pass judgment on me, Gavner Purl, and let your hand rise or fall as destiny decides it must." -Larten Crepsley

But I don't think Art's an Einstein - he likes tugging ears, biting people and burping too much to be a genius.

But in life we don't usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face them when they come, no matter what sort of a state we're in.

But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.

But the universe isn't fair. Things don't work out neatly, pain, hardship and challenges divided equally among those best equipped to deal with them. Sometimes individuals have to be Atlases and carry the weight of the world alone. It shouldn't happen that way, but it does.

But you're like me,” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

Childhood is the purest state. The pure of heart never leave it behind. Their life merely takes them on a cirtuitous route away from, and then back to it.

Cirque du Freak' is the best vampire series ever.

Confidence has brought them out into the light, but they seem to have forgotten - light's no good for creatures of the night.

Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116

Even a minute of dying is better than an eternity of nothingness.

Even in death may you triumphant

Ever hear of the phrase, Banging you're head on a brick wall?" Ah, but you forget, Darren, vampires can break brick walls with their heads.

For a long time that's all I could do, howl and scream and cry like the wild animal of the night that I'd become.

For an hour or more he was neither human nor vampire, just a howling, hungry creature of dark delights.

Humans elect leaders on the basis of the promises they make. We [vampires] try to elect ours based solely on the strength of their character.

I always knew there was power in the earth, but it must be much stronger than I imagined to resist such a relentless foe, day after day, night after night, year after year.

I'd like to do something to help the worst afflicted, but I can't. It's not possible to save everybody. Even heroes have their all-too-human limits.

I don't think anyone ever remembers what they were really like as kids. Adults think they do, but they don't. Photos and videos don't capture the real you, or bring back to life the person you used to be. You have to return to the past to do that.

If he comes in the dark, then it's KYAG Time!" - Harkat Mulds (The Lake of Souls)

If I'd known how wrong I was - if I'd had any idea of the awful night that lay ahead - I'd have run after him and never returned to that disgusting circus of blood, that revolting circus of death.

If this were a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under the bed.

I gulped, then stepped over the threshold into the house where I'd lived as a boy. After eighteen long years of wandering, I had finally come home.

I know that no matter how lonely I get, I'll never be truly alone again. Our loved ones don't leave us. They just move out of sight for a while, and wait...in the shades.

I know who the demon thief is - it's me!

I mean, seriously, what lady of taste could resist a shiny green head of hair like mine?

I might have to drink the blood of animals to stay alive, but I would never feast on one of my own kind, no matter what Mr.Crepsley said, or hows much my belly growled.

I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever.

Indecision is the source of chaos." - Paris Skyle(Allies of the Night)

I sucked blood from one of my best friends

It is good to be taught humility when we are young. If we do not exeperience pain as children, we will cause pain as adults.

It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.

It's a bit like the feeling I get when I'm standing on a cliff or high building, looking down at a suicidal drop. I start thinking about what would happen if I stepped off, the rush of the fall, the shattering collision, the quiet emptiness of death. Part of me wants to experience the thrill of complete surrender.

Leave him alone!" Debbie shouted. "Shut up, please, or I'll kill you," Mr Tiny replied.

Look at me!" I roar. "Do you think you'll be the first I've killed today? I wasn't a murderer, but you changed me. I'm a monster now. And I'm hungry." "Meera!" Anotoine whines. "Prae! Please, I beg you. You're civilised people. Help me!" "We can't," Prae says coldly. "Even if we wanted to - and personally I have no problem with him gutting you - we couldn't. He's not ours to control. He's one of your specimens. You helped create him - now you have to deal with him

Lovely Arra Sails, nectar to all males, how I'd like to spear you like a whaler spears a whale!

Man wasn't made to share the universe with gods. Their ways are not meant for the humble likes of us. But we've decoded some of their secrets regardless. Like worms, we've grabbed on to the talons of eagles and learned some small truths and means of flight. But we can never really fly. We try, and succeed to a certain extent, but the fall is always - will always be - there.

Maybe we should wait....wait for him to kill another five or six, huh?

Maybe you're going insane." "Maybe," agreed Kernel. "I was joking." "I wasn't.

Meddling, smug, stupid little..." "She likes me! They always play hard to get when they like me!" "No. You do not understand. I could not have done it because I can not read or write.

No, thats not how it happened... Mr crepsley dropped. He was impaled on the stakes. He died. And it was awful... His cries as he writhed there, bleeding and dying, burning and screaming, will stay with me till I die. Maybe I'll even carry them with me after I go.

Now sod off back to your own world, you motherless scum, and save your threats for those who care.

No. You know this is wrong and you want to feel better about it. You don't want to admit your as ruthless and monstrous as the demons you claim to hate.

One of the things is that in times of severe disorder, you can't worry about the dead, only the living.

Power always impresses the young and foolish.

Quick! Head for the ground floor! We have to get out! We will die if we stay! The vampires are here!" "Haven't you got a hug for me, Larten, old buddy?