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"The lies of centuries, the lies of love,the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christwill be your bedmates and tombstonesin a death that will never end."

"You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth."

"It's as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are."

"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth."

"It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true."
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"She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair."

"Remember that I'm still a monster. I can listen to you scream and cry and beg and I still won't let you out."

"When Tana was six, vampires were Muppets, endlessly counting, or cartoon villains in black cloaks with red polyester lining."

"People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death."

"In those stories, one is often asked to do something unimaginably terrible to the creature. Cut off it's head, say. A test. Not a test of love. A test of trust. Trust lifts the spell."

"I'm sorry,' she said to each of the dead as she unzipped and unfastened their things, 'I'm sorry Courtney. I'm sorry Marcus. I'm sorry Rachel. I'm sorry Jon. I'm sorry I'm alive and you're dead. I'm sorry I was asleep. I'm sorry I didn't save you and now I'm taking your things. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry."

"He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as blades, and his jaw curved, giving him an off-kilter beauty. His black hair a mad forest of dirty curls."
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