Vampires Will Be Vampires Quotes

“How many times had they failed to be grateful for that which they already possessed, instead striving endlessly toward some manufactured ideal and destroying what they had in the process?”
― Isla Frost, Vampires Will Be Vampires

“People needed those greater than themselves. Or else they grew arrogant and apathetic. Petty and small-minded. Obsessed with pleasure and self at the cost of all else.”
― Isla Frost, Vampires Will Be Vampires

“These things, especially in the health and medical industry, routinely killed far more people than the average serial killer could ever aspire to. And yet so few of them resulted in criminal charges. Indirect manslaughter for profit was far more societally acceptable than one person purposefully ending lives on a smaller scale.”
― Isla Frost, Vampires Will Be Vampires

“Should children be held responsible for their genetics or circumstances or the way they were raised? Of course not. Yet after some arbitrary span of time, we do just that. Because at some point the responsibility has to shift to them. Yet how much of who we are is a product of our nature and nurture, really? I suppose the only thing that seems unambiguous is kindness and mercy. But even those are questionable if in granting them you’re denying victims justice or closure…” He sighed. “Like I said, it’s complicated.”
― Isla Frost, Vampires Will Be Vampires

“The power held by corporate giants was terrifying even before the CEO decided to leverage that power for their own murderous ends. A supply shortage. A profit-driven business decision. Cost cuts or poorly thought-out policies that reduced safety margins, forced people into unemployment, or added more pressure to frontline workers already stretched thin. A price hike of an essential medicine. (Wolfram hadn’t forged new ground there.) These things, especially in the health and medical industry, routinely killed far more people than the average serial killer could ever aspire to. And yet so few of them resulted in criminal charges. Indirect manslaughter for profit was far more societally acceptable than one person purposefully ending lives on a smaller scale.”
― Isla Frost, Vampires Will Be Vampires

“Life is rarely so straightforward as the fairy tales would have us believe. Truth. Justice. Happy endings. Life is, and excuse my alphabet, effing complicated. Should children be held responsible for their genetics or circumstances or the way they were raised? Of course not. Yet after some arbitrary span of time, we do just that. Because at some point the responsibility has to shift to them. Yet how much of who we are is a product of our nature and nurture, really? I suppose the only thing that seems unambiguous is kindness and mercy. But even those are questionable if in granting them you’re denying victims justice or closure…” He sighed. “Like I said, it’s complicated.”
― Isla Frost, Vampires Will Be Vampires