“He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough.”

“I smiled. "I understand now. But It doesn't matter and you needn't apologize. They have been very kind to me too. Even if we did differ a little about suitable dresses." He considered me a moment, a mischievous light creeping into his eyes, and said: "Was THAT the dress - that night you wouldn't come out of your room?"I grinned and nodded, and we both laughed;”

“Laughter went on and on, like sunlight and stone, even if the human beings who laughed did not.”

“The Lone Ranger of vampires. Did that make me Tonto?”

“My father... raised me to make up my own mind. The way he did this was by yielding to me when I asked, even when I was foolish. I lived through it; and I know my own mind; and he will do what I ask him.”

“He didn't look insane or inhuman. He did look uncooperative.”

“The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope.”