Books
In the Vampire Diaries, the black rose is referred to black magic, the only human drink and wine accessible for vampires to drink. Its taste is the same as the taste of blood. Many of the main characters use this to survive. It has the same affects as any drug though.
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“There are books ... which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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and a few friends,
those who reach into my veins.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)