Our Vampires, Ourselves Quotes

“Vampires are neither inhuman nor nonhuman nor all-too-human, they are simply more alive than they should be.”
― Nina Auerbach, Our Vampires, Ourselves

“To emulate a vampire is to be a spectator disappearing into a spectator: we listen, talk, watch, without touching or becoming. because they glide on the margins of activity, Sandy Stone's vampires dissipate rigid structures of gender and received identity, freeing their acolytes to "celebrate the change, the passing forms.”
― Nina Auerbach, Our Vampires, Ourselves

“As unnatural actors, vampires represent freedom from activity - even, it seems, from sexuality.”
― Nina Auerbach, Our Vampires, Ourselves