How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
When Casimir was finally released from his underground confinement, back in 1973, he looked just like a bog mummy. He couldn't even blink for a week. His tongue was kippered, his teeth were loose, and his eyeballs had shrunk to the size and consistency of dried peas. (7.6)
Oh joy, more graphic descriptions of suffering vampires. Isn't that just what we needed? It sounds like depriving a vampire of food for a few decades will really do a number on them. Being immortal, thus surviving to suffer through imprisonment, maybe isn't so appealing after all.
Quote #5
"I killed him and then I ate him," Reuben continued. There was so much raw anger and self-disgust in his voice that I could hardly bear to listen. (13.121)
Poor Reuben has suffered a lot in his life. Being a werewolf doesn't seem as bad as being a vampire, in terms of the amount of physical pain and disability it inflicts, but then, Reuben has to deal with not remembering what he does when he's a wolf (hint: it's usually violent and bloody). Not to mention everything that the McKinnons have inflicted on him.
Quote #6
"You keep saying that vampirism is just another form of humanity," I exclaimed, "yet you're happy to sit here and let other people suffer! Is that what a real human being would do?" (17.75)
Nina is annoyed at how nobody wants to mobilize to rescue Reuben from the McKinnons (who, let's remember, keep him in captivity, abuse him, and make him fight other werewolves to the death). So Nina goes for the throat and calls out the other vamps on their lack of empathy for suffering.