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

“I knelt and prayed, and the strongest truth came over me. Didn't matter if God …”

“I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.”

“It's so easy to wish for death when nothing's wrong with you! It's so easy to f…”

“And it was not merely the dry hissing coil of the thirst that was quenched and …”