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21 " I suggest you give up now. According to my research, in a vampire-werewolf love triangle, the vampire always gets the girl. "
― Ilona Andrews , Clean Sweep (Innkeeper Chronicles, #1)
22 " In its timeless capacity to embody the human condition, the vampire is a poignant metaphor describing the psychosocial experience of the pariah - the outsider. The vampire is the Other that used to be human. The diseased, the mentally challenged, the homeless and hungry, ......are all vampires in a way; the other who used to be human, the invisible who casts no reflection among us. "
― Katherine Ramsland , The Science of Vampires
23 " Chalmers, thanks to Baudelaire, knew all about Taffreuse Juive, opium, absinthe, negresses, Lesbos and the metamorphoses of the vampire ... Needless to say, Chalmers and myself were both virgins, in every possible meaning of the word. "
― Christopher Isherwood , Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties
24 " The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him. "
25 " But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster. "
