"To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself."

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"To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself."

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"As they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our watchers, those who know and understand the tiny little meaningless patterns, those words drawn in water with a stick. And there is nothing left but the endless flow."

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"Alas, my being the James Bond of vampires isn't the whole issue. Vanity must wait."

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"I congratulate myself on not having arrived into the world until the present time. This age suits my taste."

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"I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love."

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"Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven."

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"I hear the birds singing. Listen. I hear them in their cage. The others-all our kind who know of her-they think of her as heartless, but she wasn't heartless. She was only aware of things which I didn't learn till so many decades had passed. She knew secrets that only suffering can teach..."

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"All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I fancied myself a witch and walked in dark streets to punish myself for my doubts. But I knew what it meant to be afraid."

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