Alice

"You know, before I met you, I thought love wasn't real. I thought love was just a signal sent to the brain to facilitate procreation, and because of that, vampires couldn't fall in love. We could imitate love and make others fall in love with us, but we ourselves could not experience love," she said, as we laid in bed.

"I'm speaking of romantic love specifically, not familial love or loving a friend. Although, in the 200 years I've been undead, I haven't experienced feeling love for a friend. And the possibility of familial love was taken away from me when my progenitor left me unconscious in an alley. Just like I was going to do to you. I'm sorry for that."

"I was a prostitute in London when I was turned. My parents were killed when I was young. I grew up in an orphanage. They turned me out at 18, so I turned myself out at 19. I couldn't take begging for scraps anymore. After a few years things had gotten better. I wasn't sleeping on the streets anymore."