I wouldn't write a book to tell you that a vampire was happy.

“At last he stood staring at the old Reuben Golding he thought he knew so well, …”

“In these last few days, we were close because we were both mortal men. We saw t…”

“But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; an…”

“I was too miserable to take much consolation just from feeling good for a momen…”