"No other creature, no matter how horrible or strange, can claim, as vampyres can, to be 'undead'. Werewolves (those terrifying people who can shift into wolf shape) are certainly very much alive. Man-made monsters like Frankenstein's Monster have life given to them, though not in the ordinary way. Ghosts and other spirits are dead. But vampyres are neither one nor the other; they're halfway in between. They have gone through what has appeared to be an ordinary human death, but their bodies remain solid and continue to crave nourishment...." -Nancy Garden

What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each loved one blotted from life's page,
And be alone on earth, as I am now.
-Lord Byron

Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath;
Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To cease upon the midnight with no pain,
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an ecstacy!
~~John Keats

I live not in myself, but I become
Portion of that around me: and to me
High mountains are a feeling, but the hum
Of human cities torture.....

I have not loved the world, nor the world me;
I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed
To its idolatries a patient knee...
...I stood
Amoung them, but not of them--in a shroud
Of thoughts which were not their thoughts...
-Lord Byron

"It is not only the male you must fear. There is, it is said, at that castle, that which is worse: a woman. For a woman should give life, not take it.
--from Countess Dracula
by Carroll Borland

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