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“There are times when you wake at dawn and check your neck for the marks of the vampire, those two little red dots, your pupils still contracted with hate, muscles weary from the struggle.”

Book:My Phantom Husband

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My Phantom Husband

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“The rain is, in a sense, The sole sad friend of those who find themselves Thinking, wide awake, until the dawn, Who, in bed, alone, with fevered hands, Listen to it, soothed. They like the company Of its faint moan across the sleeping plain, Its rustling in the garden all night long. - On the Great Grey Road (Sur ce Grand Chemin Gris...)”

Sleep Rain Insomnia Wakefulness

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Sitting in a corner, I live like a toad Oh! How I love my room: my tiny abode! Here I wake up; and I sleep in here The world far away; yet virtually near Not that I'm jailed in this place of grace Just don't want to face another face”

“Wouldn’t it have been better to conserve your strength and rest?” Ildiko mused after a moment. “I’ll sleep long and hard when I’m dead. You defy death by celebrating life.”

War Death Sleep Strength Duty Celebrate Warrior Live Fight Dead Rest Celebrate Life Life Or Death Defying Warriors Path Enjoying Life Defy Celebrating Life Conserve Defy Death Mused

Book:Eidolon

Source: Eidolon

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