Post by Edward Cullen on Nov 11, 2008 11:51:55 GMT -5
Every version of a vampire story has its differences in the lore. Weaknesses and strengths of the vampires change. Here's a collection of quotes from the book to help you keep things straight. Feel free to add on if you find something you think is appropriate.
"Dont laugh but how come you can come out during the daytime?"
He laughed anyway "Myth"
"Burned by the sun?"
"Myth"
"Sleeping in coffins?"
"Myth" He hesitated for a moment, and a peculiar tone entered his voice. "I can't sleep"
It took me a minute to absorb that. "At all?"
"Never"
"You asked if the sun hurt me, and it doesn't. But I can't go out in the sunlight - at least not where anyone can see"
"When we hunt, " he spoke slowly, unwillingly, "we give ourselves over to our senses...govern less with our minds. Especially our sense of smell. If you were anywhere near me when I lost control that way...."
"How can you kill a vampire?"
He glanced at me with unreadable eyes and his voice was suddenly harsh. "The only way to be sure is to tear him to shreds, and then burn the pieces"
"How do you become a vampire?"
"...As predators we have a glut of weapons in our physical arsenal. The strength, the speed, the acute senses, not to mention those of us like Edward, Jasper and I who have extra senses as well..." "...We have another fairly superfluous weapon. We're also venomous"she said, her teeth glistening. "the venom doesnt kill - its merely incapacitating. It works slowly, spreading through the bloodstream, so that once bitten, our prey is in too much physical pain to escape us.
"It takes a few days for the transformation to be complete, depending on how much venom is in the bloodstream, how close the venom enters the heart. As long as the heart keeps beating, the poison spreads, healing, changing the body as it moves through. Eventually the heart stops and the conversion is finished. But all the time, every minute of it, the victim would be wishing for death"
"Why can you read minds - why only you? And Alice, seeing the future... why does that happen?"
"We don't really know. Carlisle has a theory... he believes that we all bring something of our strongest human traits with us into the next life, where they are intensified - like our minds, and our senses. He thinks that I must have already been very sensitive to the thoughts of those around me. And that Alice had some precognition..."
"Dont laugh but how come you can come out during the daytime?"
He laughed anyway "Myth"
"Burned by the sun?"
"Myth"
"Sleeping in coffins?"
"Myth" He hesitated for a moment, and a peculiar tone entered his voice. "I can't sleep"
It took me a minute to absorb that. "At all?"
"Never"
"You asked if the sun hurt me, and it doesn't. But I can't go out in the sunlight - at least not where anyone can see"
"When we hunt, " he spoke slowly, unwillingly, "we give ourselves over to our senses...govern less with our minds. Especially our sense of smell. If you were anywhere near me when I lost control that way...."
"How can you kill a vampire?"
He glanced at me with unreadable eyes and his voice was suddenly harsh. "The only way to be sure is to tear him to shreds, and then burn the pieces"
"How do you become a vampire?"
"...As predators we have a glut of weapons in our physical arsenal. The strength, the speed, the acute senses, not to mention those of us like Edward, Jasper and I who have extra senses as well..." "...We have another fairly superfluous weapon. We're also venomous"she said, her teeth glistening. "the venom doesnt kill - its merely incapacitating. It works slowly, spreading through the bloodstream, so that once bitten, our prey is in too much physical pain to escape us.
"It takes a few days for the transformation to be complete, depending on how much venom is in the bloodstream, how close the venom enters the heart. As long as the heart keeps beating, the poison spreads, healing, changing the body as it moves through. Eventually the heart stops and the conversion is finished. But all the time, every minute of it, the victim would be wishing for death"
"Why can you read minds - why only you? And Alice, seeing the future... why does that happen?"
"We don't really know. Carlisle has a theory... he believes that we all bring something of our strongest human traits with us into the next life, where they are intensified - like our minds, and our senses. He thinks that I must have already been very sensitive to the thoughts of those around me. And that Alice had some precognition..."