It is not faith that distinguishes our real leaders. It is doubt. Their ability to overcome it.
In the act of releasing a loved one… you taste what it is to be turned. To go against everything you are. That act changes one forever.
In the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.
Humans only become dangerous when they have nothing to lose.
He who wants and can… conquers and takes.
Everything in our universe is ciphered and to know the cipher is to know the thing—and to know the thing is to command it.
Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness.
Eph too had been turned. Not from human to vampire, but from healer to slayer.
Cultures die. Life is not circular but ruthlessly straight.
Cars get girl names. Guns get guy names. What do knives get?
Can’t trust a man with no code.
Better to die a man than live as a monster.