“That music of yours could wake the dead.”

The Vampire Lestat

“The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.”

Richard Matheson, I am Legend

“Show me a fortress and I’ll show you a ruin.”

“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”

Edgar Allan Poe

“It’s an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn’t destroy us, if it doesn’t burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.”

The Queen of the Damned

I am not as I seem to be,
Nor when I smile I am not glad,
A thrall although you count me free
I, most in mirth, most pensive-sad;
I smile to shade my bitter spite

“In the flesh all wisdom begins. Beware the thing that has no flesh. Beware the gods, beware the idea, beware the devil.”

The Queen of the Damned

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”

Niccolò Machiavelli