How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #1
She was not a believer in love at first sight, although she did believe that instant lust (going under the more innocent name of infatuation) occurred frequently. (2.271)
Susan is thinking about her feelings for Ben, and about whether she is in love with him or simply infatuated (in lust) with him. The book tends to present their relationship as love… but it ends with Ben putting a stake through her heart, which could be seen as a particularly bloody and ugly representation of sex. Susan's mom told her not to trust that guy, right?
Quote #2
There were no ghosts. But there were preeverts. They stopped in black cars and offered you candy or hung around on street corners or… or they followed you into the woods…
And then…
Oh and then they….
"Run," he said harshly. (3.412-415)
Danny Glick thinks about ghosts and the supernatural as things linked to perverts, or sexual offenders. This is a comparison made throughout the book: Hubert Marsten, who brings the vampires to Jerusalem's Lot, seems to have been a pedophile and murderer. And Danny himself, a child, soon becomes a kind of sexual predator, slaking his lust with blood.
Quote #3
It had been part her and part him that night, and after it had happened and they were lying together in the darkness of her bedroom, she began to weep and tell him that what they had done was wrong. He told her it had been right, not knowing if it had been right or not and not caring… and at last they had slept together like spoons in a silverware drawer. (3.94)
The relationship between Eva Miller and Weasel Craig is generally presented as complicated but sweet, right rather than wrong. It ends, though, with them both turned into vampires in service to the Master. As vampires, perhaps they live happily ever after together, like two spoons. Or maybe they've turned into vampires as punishment for their illicit relationship.