“The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.”

“I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.”

“But in every family there are bad people, and weak people, and some people who can't or won't withstand the trials of life, and who fail spectacularly. Their guardian angels weep; demons beholding them dance for joy.But only The Maker decides what ultimately happens to them.”

“But no one will weep for me or for them. They have been buried, nameless, beneath five centuries of time.I am a vampire.My name is Vittorio, and I write this now in the tallest tower of the ruined mountaintop castle in which I was born, in the northernmost part of Tuscany, that most beautiful of lands in the very center of Italy.”

“The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world.”

“A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.”

“Keep your secretsKeep your silenceIt is a better gift than truth”