Wampyr Quotes

“The rats were all gone, but He slid into the room through the sash, though it was only open an inch wide-just as the Moon herself has often come in through the tiniest crack, and has stood before me in all her size and splendour.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“He bowed in an intentionally archaic fashion, handed her his hat, and stepped in.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Ad Eternum

“He could all but vanish in a busy room, simply by sitting still. He had been dead so long that living people no longer registered him as a presence unless he forced the issue.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Ad Eternum

“The wampyr was careful, and took as little as he could bear, as slowly as he could bear. It was hard to stop, with the rush of warmth and life into his body after so long dry and chill and hungry.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Ad Eternum

“They say the secret to getting away with murder is to tell no living soul. Well, the secret to getting away with lying is to believe with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself, even more so than lying to another.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Seven for a Secret

“He didn’t believe his own lies anymore. He hadn’t for decades. His artifices had grown shallow, without structure or craft.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Seven for a Secret / The White City / Ad Eternum

“Mortals had the luxury of demanding permanence and having some slight chance of getting it. They did not need to acquire the skill of letting names, lovers, places slip through their fingers like hourglass sand.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Seven for a Secret

“In human company, he mimicked the mannerisms of those with whom he interacted, reflecting them like the mirrors that could not reflect him in turn.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Seven for a Secret

“From here, he could see perfectly through the dark-the two women in white (a ridiculous affectation, even for Prussians, whom the wampyr found consistently preposterous) their back bisected by the black outlines of machine guns!”
― Elizabeth Bear, Seven for a Secret

“The wampyr was too old to believe in the sanctity of human governments or human religions. He’d seen too many rise and fall, too many fragile ephermal men and women give everything to support or oppose them.”
― Elizabeth Bear, Seven for a Secret

“One of the blood could enter a hotel room with impunity-whatever mystic authority regulated the restriction of their power did not consider a lodging to be a dwelling place-but a mortal policeman must wait to be invited.”
― Elizabeth Bear, The White City