Dead until Dark

you like the living dead, he’s pretty neat

Bill,” he said, nodding. Vampires didn’t seem to shake hands.

That I’m trying to live among humans

Everything was in gray, black, and red. The walls were lined with framed pictures ofevery movie vampire who had shown fangs on the silver screen, from Bela Lugosi to George Hamilton to Gary Oldman, from famous to obscure. The lighting was dim, of course, nothing unusual about that; what was unusual was the clientele. And the posted signs

That one,” he said, poking a finger at Dawn’s picture, “she wanted to die.”

“How do you know?”

“Everyone who comes here does, to one extent or another,” he said so matter-of-factly I could tell he took that for granted. “That is what we are. Death.”

This is the reality, Sookie,” he said. “I need it to live.”

We’re all mean, Sookie. We’re all very strong and very violent.”

I’m a vampire, Sookie. I don’t think like you. I don’t care about people automatically

either you have a crafty vampire with great self-control, or you have someone who’s determined to kill women who’ve been with vampires

Sookie, our life is seducing and taking and has been for centuries, for some of us. Synthetic blood and grudging human acceptance isn’t going to change that overnight-or over a decade. Diane and Liam and Malcolm have been together for fifty years.”