No,''he said. ''I was a Strigoi. I was one of them. I did. . . terrible things. '' The words were mild, but the tone of his voice spoke legions. The radiant faces of his family turned sober. ''I was lost. Beyond hope. Except. . . Rose believed in me. Rose never gave up.
In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful. ' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them.