Vampires: The Recent Undead Quotes.

1. "Success always moves on to the next thing, Milton agreed, as Bloch trailed him up the circular stair. But failure’s timeless, isn’t it? Failure is forever."
- Paula Guran, Vampires: The Recent Undead

2. "Everybody’s intrigued by someone comfortable in their own skin because most of us aren’t."
- Paula Guran, Vampires: The Recent Undead

3. "Grown-ups always seem to be worried about money, or politics, or just stuff that has physical presence. It’s like somewhere along the way they lost the ability to think about what’s inside them."
- Paula Guran, Vampires: The Recent Undead

4. "Because that’s what fantasy is, isn’t it? he demanded. Not just making things up, but taking ideas and giving them hands and feet and claws and teeth!"
- Paula Guran, Vampires: The Recent Undead

5. "Ironic, Ricardo said. That you must become a monster to keep from going mad."
- Paula Guran, Vampires: The Recent Undead

6. "He died in St. Vincent’s. I got a call one night, and this very firm Negro voice said, ‘Your dad, he ain’t got no life signs.’ I said, ’You mean he’s dead?’ ‘We ain’t ’lowed to use that word,’ said the voice. ’He ain’t got no life signs is all.’ ’That’s okay,’ I said. He never did.’"
- Paula Guran, Vampires: The Recent Undead

7. "She looked like a preschooler dressed up as a squaw for a costume party, but had the vocabulary of a sailor in Tijuana and the glittery eyes of a magpie with three convictions for aggravated burglary."
- Paula Guran, Vampires: The Recent Undead

8. "walls to make sure that"
- Paula Guran, Vampires: The Recent Undead

9. "Living in West Texas is sort of like living in Hell, but without the favorable climate and charming people."
- Paula Guran, Vampires: The Recent Undead