Austin Petrini

“Lost siblings left a gap that hurt to touch, and I couldn't help remembering my own as I patted Kate Small's hand.”
― C. L. Polk

“God, do you lose your reason with the Dark Trick," I asked, "with your rituals, your sealing up of the fledglings in the grave? Or were you monsters when you were living? How could we not all of us love mortals with every breath we take!”
― Anne Rice, Anne Rice's The Vampire Lestat

“There should be a word for the microscopic spark of hope that you dare not entertain in case the mere act of acknowledging it will cause it to vanish, like trying to look at a photon. You can only sidle up to it, lookong past it, walking past it, waiting for it to get big enough to face the world”
― Terry Pratchett, Mort

“It was haunted; but real hauntings have nothing to do with ghosts finally; they have to do with the menace of memory.”
― Anne Rice, The Queen of the Damned