“I was not use to that kind of hunger, even as a poor college student.”

“I was desensitized to all the pain, even though essentially it was always all around me.”

“Maybe the end of the world was bound to happen after all.”

“Sometimes, your pet picks you.”

“New York City, city of exaggerations. Place of Herculean ascensions and perilous falls.”

“Hunger flickered, always there, but I pushed it down. I was a vampire. Nothing would change that. But I didn't have to be a monster.”

“And I realized that, for this night at least, I didn't much care if anyone was the marrying kind or not - not even me. Who could tell? We none of us knew for sure WHAT kind we were, exactly, but as long as were the kind that could sit around eating together and having a lovely time, that was enough.”