"Vampirism was legal in the good ol' U.S. of A. We were one of the few countries to acknowledge them."
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"Monica Vespucci was wearing a button that said, 'Vampires are People too.' It was not a promising beginning to the evening."
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"Jean-Claude had been intrigued by my partial immunity to him."
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"Vampires are made by other vampires. Zombies are raised from the grave by an animator or voodoo priest. Ghouls, as far as we know, just crawl out of the graves on their own."
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"'You look like a B-movie Dracula.'"
Anita to Aubrey
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"'We are not merely rats, but men, and we have a choice.'"
King Rat to Anita
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"'You do what we want, or I will peel away your mind like layers of an onion.'"
Nikolaos to Anita
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"A pale hand raised out of the...