The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

We should totally ask him what he thinks!” Caitlin said.

But Marisa already knew the answer and it was too late for recrimination. The chance of even a rational discussion of the problem was forever shut out of Mama’s brain. A brutal bastard was steadily...

It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn’t see the end, a night...

That’s kind of creepy,

Spain, for so long a mere geographical expression, was somehow transformed into an historical fact.

the only one who wanted to be free. Surprise, surprise. CHAPTER