"When you raise the dead for a living, you have to spill a little blood."
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"He hadn't had enough blood in him to cause lividity marks. Whoever had murdered him had drained him completely."
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"For a corpse to rise as a vampire, you have to have just one vampire feeding over a space of several days. Three bites ending with death, and you get a vampire."
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"I had been stabbed, beaten, shot, strangled, and vampire bit in the space of four months."
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"Lycanthropy is a disease, like AIDS."
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"The only things we have in common are violence and the dead. I don't think that's much to base a relationship on."
Anita to Jean-Claude
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"I'm not prejudiced, but God help me, the man has to at least be alive. Walking corpses, no matter how pretty, are just not my cup of tea."
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