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21 " Werewolves are taught from an early age not to lose their temper unless they do so with intent. "
― Katherine Addison , The Angel of the Crows
22 " I don’t know why women have the reputation for gossip when in my experiences men are just as bad. Small certainly was. He was particularly interested in other unregistered hemophages. "
23 " Hemophages are drawn to each other’s company just as…as hellhounds are. "
24 " No unregistered has a job that suits thir hungers, Doctor, a fact you know as well as I do. "
25 " The vampires could no more make a nest of hemophages into a vampiric hunt than a flock of peacocks could make a mouse into a bird. "
26 " Vampires can go for weeks without feeding, but they do not like to. Hence their red lamps and courteous ways. A true, deeply enthralled addict will let his or her vampiric Master feed daily if asked to-although vampires, wise and old and cold-blooded and with a large population of addicts to choose from, generally do not do so. "
27 " Moriarty listened intently, golden eyes-the eyes of a beast in a man’s ascetic face-fixed on me. "
28 " Vampires’ teeth are not as horrible as a hemophages’-few things are as horrible as a hemophage’s teeth-but they are no pretty sight. "
29 " Listening to Small’s slow approach was far worse than if he had simply appeared in front of the grille like the Devil in a pantomime. "
30 " I disliked the sound of their laughter; they sounded intoxicated, although not with alcohol. They had something-or they thought they had something that would let them negotiate with a vampiric hunt. They were drunk or a feeling of invisibility. And that did not bode well for their prisoners. "
31 " I came out of my bedroom, feeling as if someone had been sticking matches on my eyeballs and found Crow scribbling furious notes to himself on a piece of foolscap. "
32 " As he spoke and his fury grew, I saw his fangs drop and his eyes burn redder and redder; his face became a twisted caricature of a human face, the terrible fangs gnashing with every word. "
33 " Her voice held a hint of Ireland, worn almost smooth by centuries in England. "
34 " You cannot have him. He is mine. "
35 " Vampires, unlike angels, do not forget any more than they forgive. "
36 " My choice was between the vampire and the hemophage. Moriarty was a bad risk, but he was better than that. "
37 " Guilt calls to ghosts, often more strongly than grief, and any ghost that can move an object can kill a man. "
38 " I slumped once in a fashion I hoped might look like an addict’s ecstacy and concentrated on not vomiting. "
39 " He is mine and you cannot have him. "
40 " It infuriated him as only a sneer from someone you’ve already marked as dinner can. "