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"Numberless paths of night
wind away from twilight."
-Dean Koontz

"Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody" - Mark Twain

"Evil is a faceless stranger,
living in a distant neighborhood.
Evil has a wholesome, hometown face,
with merry eyes and an open smile.
Evil walks among us, wearing a mask
which looks like all our faces."
- Dean Koontz

"Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave." - Homer

"Oh for the moonless night,
when the orb shines not its reflected light.
As shadows follow with the sun,
from the moonlit night, you cannot run...

For the light that is vanquished by the shade,
a concession of balance must be made....
As the sun casts shadows of nighttime's gray,
the moon mirrors the light of day."
-Shadowmind

"Do not ask which creature screams in the night, Do not question who waits for you in the shadow. It is my cry that wakes you in the night, And my body that crouches in the shadow. I am Tzeench and you are the puppet That dances to my tune."
-Karanzantor the Vile, The Traitor of Xian

"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark burn out in a brilliant blaze than it be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet."
-Jack London

"The lips which will be markedly full and red are drawn back from the teeth which gleam long, sharp as razors, and ivory white."
-Montague Summers, The Vampire, His Kith and Kind (1928)

"First defense against evil - Open your damn eyes."
-Reese, Forever Knights

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
-Walter Lippman

"I am the shadow on the moon at night, filling your dreams to the brim with fright."
-The Nightmare Before Christmas

"The only thing that is yours, is your soul;
everything else is borrowed."
-Shadowmind

"Do not search out the Dragon to slay him, but instead to find love within his heart"
-Guiding Eagle

"I'm scared. No wait. Don't comfort me. You don't know."
-Anne Rice, The Witching Hour

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems as thought you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
-Harriet Beecher Stowe

"All that we see or seem, Is but a dream within a dream."
-Edgar Allan Poe

"How typical of humans... Your eyes are clouded so you cannot see...... Even though the truth is always within you..."
-Vampire Princess Miyu

"Another day nearer the battle,
So drink up my lads and look brave,
'Cos every day nearer the battle
Is another day nearer the grave."
-A warriors' song of the Imperial Guard

"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die."
-H.P. Lovecraft

"The Wheel of Time turns, and ages come and pass leaving memories that become legend, then fade to myth, and are long forgotten when that age comes again."
-Robert Jordan, "The Wheel of Time"

"Night has patterns that can be read
less by the living than by the dead."
-Dean Koontz

"Tried to save a place from the cuts and the scratches
Tried to overcome the complications and the catches
Now nothing ever comes and the sun doesn't shine all day
Tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping away."
-NIN, Into the Void

"In the real world, as in dreams,
nothing is quite what it seems."
-Dean Koontz

"No one holds command over me.
No man. No god. No prince.
What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal?
What is a claim of power for ones who defy death?
Call your damnable hunt.
We shall see who I drag screaming to hell with me."
-Gunter Dorn, Das Ungeheuer Darin. Vampire the Masquerade 2nd Edition Book

"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster...when you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes back."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"I could choose to be purely good, but I will not. I could choose to be purely evil, but I will not. I will be neutral. In that way I am free to be what suits me best, and no man can predict my actions."
-Lycorne

"Tired of these endless games,
Time to end the darkened day
To raise the sword
To kill the light
Because there is no reason left to fight..."
-Night Oasis

"If everything were perfect in this life we would never learn anything new. We would not be able to elevate our spirits through the events that happen to us."
-Lynn.V. Andrews

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