“I balked. Another vampire? I guess it made sense; the states of the Pacific Northwest were known for their lenient monster laws.”
“A monster’s not a monster to another monster. At least that’s what I thought when I saw my mother-in-law talking to a statue of Stalin.”
“The only monsters I have ever known were men.”
“I'd made the vampire cry. Great. I felt like a real superhero. Harry Dresden, breaker of monsters' hearts.”
“Vampires were hardly the monsters we were made out to be in fairy tales and television shows. We were hardly different from humans, but for the genetic mutation, fangs, silvering eyes, and periodic penchant for blood. What? I said hardly different.”
“I want to be a vampire. They're the coolest monsters.”