1,587 Quotes About Vampires

I went soft. I saw the shocks of the blows as so many colors, and I thought to myself bitterly, ah, what beautiful colors, yes, colors. Then came the increased wails of my brothers. They too must suffer this, and what mental refuge did they have, these fragile young students, each so well loved and so well taught and groomed for the great world, to find themselves now at the mercy of these demons whose purpose was unknown to me, whose purpose lay beyond anything I could conceive.

I put my mind at work on the tone of the voices near me, such sweet and pitiable voices. I picked out the boys by name and slowly made a count of them. Over half our little company, our splendid cherubic company, was in this abominable prison.

Now you, brave one, little Ganymede of the blasphemers, you willful brazen cherub.

Child,” he whispered. “Would I suffer such horrors if not for God?

He considered us not worthy of his attentions, and look, how he lavished all his strength of a boy. But I must say you are a most beautiful boy.

Ah, but you have a fiery tongue for one with such a sweet face,” he said with cool wonder. “So pliant you seem with your soft brown eyes and dark autumnal red hair, but you are clever.

In you, he saw God’s grace, because your soul is pure. You are young and tender and open like the moonflower to intake the light of the night. You hate us now, but you will come to see.

It is the very nature of this world that all things are devoured and time is a mouth as bloody as any other.

I entrusted myself to his arms, I opened my lips to his, I bowed my head to press my face to his chest, and as I listened to his beating heart, I breathed deep, as if the very air had been denied to me until that moment.