Francis Marion Crawford said this quote

I have seen an evil thing this night,' he said; 'I have seen how the dead drink the blood of the living. And the blood is the life.

~ Francis Marion Crawford

I will come,' the priest answered, 'for I have read in old books of these strange beings which are neither quick nor dead, and which lie ever fresh in their graves, stealing out in the dusk to taste life and blood.

~ Francis Marion Crawford

Death is only a translation of life into another language.

~ Francis Marion Crawford

A cool breeze stirred my hair at that moment, as the night wind began to come down from the hills, but it felt like a breath from another world.

~ Francis Marion Crawford