"Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!"
"I don't see our life as powers and gifts. I see it as a curse. I haven't the courage to die."
" 'You want this of me, yet you don't come to me,' he said, 'There are things you want to know, and you don't ask. You see Claudia slipping away from you, yet you seem powerless to prevent it, and then you would hasten it, and yet you do nothing!'
'I don't understand my own feelings. Perhaps they are clearer to you than they are to me...'
'You don't begin to know what a mystery you are!' he said. "
" 'Would you die with me?' she asked, with a sly, mocking smile. 'Would you in fact die with me?' she pressed. 'Don't you understand what is happening to me? That he's killing me, that master vampire who has you in thrall, that he won't share your love with me, not a drop of it? I see his power in your eyes. I see your misery, your distress, the love for him you can't hide. Turn around, I'll make you look at me with those eyes that want him, I'll make you listen' "