The Reformed Vampire Support Group Inertia Quotes

Oh, Nina. Nina, Nina, Nina. You've got a bad temper and it shows when the vamps around you are being annoying with all their inactivity. She snaps at everyone, including Dave (who she secretly likes), and who can blame her? It'd be like being stuck with the whiniest reality show contestants you can imagine, who never actually do anything, ever.

You know what'll give you a swift kick in the pants? Realizing that someone who lived a lot like you live has just been killed. Nina hates a lot of parts of vampiric life, but she realizes when Casimir's killed that she wants to keep living. She doesn't want to end up like him, a pathetic pile of ash. Even her inactive, boring, miserable existence is better than that, right?

When the group decides to send someone to Cobar to look into the silver bullet found at Casimir's murder scene, Nina ducks into the bathroom rather than commit to going along. As she thinks about what she's just done, she feels appalled at herself. How much can she moan and complain about other vampires being pathetically inactive, when she's just doing the same?

Nina starts to put things into perspective: Not only was Casimir a big creepy meanie (he was the one who bit her and turned her into a vampire, after all), he was the embodiment of vampirism. And look where it got him. Nina is positive that she's different than he was, and part of that difference is that she's more active. At least, that's what she likes to tell herself…

When Nina first meets Reuben, she's totally drawn to him. He embodies energy and motion and vibrancy and all the stuff best demonstrated with emphatic jazz hands. It's such a contrast to how vamps move and act that Nina is just blown away. She might be crushing on him a teeny bit, too.

And Nina loses her temper yet again. Maybe she's not as plagued by inactivity as she fears. Anyway, here she's blowing up at Sanford, who's nay-saying her insistence that they have to rescue Reuben. And she raises a good point: How can Sanford say vampires are basically like other people if he doesn't also believe that vampires should hold themselves to the same standards of empathy and helpfulness that normal people do?

Father Ramon drops a truth-bomb on the vamps: He has to do something to help Reuben, even if it's as indirect as placing an anonymous phone call to the police, because otherwise he won't be able to live with himself. Maybe it's because Father Ramon's a priest with an activist streak, or maybe because it's because he's a human, and so not afflicted with the vampiric lack-of-caring… but he definitely shows here that he has a strong moral compass, and he intends to do something instead of just sit back.

Of all the vamps, we didn't imagine Horace would be the one to urge Nina to action. He seems kind of derpy, you know? But here he is, telling Nina that they have to rescue Reuben. Of course, Nina was just sick to her stomach, so she's not thinking straight. Horace probably has some kind of agenda or ulterior motive. Why else would a typical vamp volunteer to be helpful?

Okay kids, let's get meta: Nina is talking to Dermid about being active and involved as a vampire, and in doing so, is being active and involved as a vampire herself. Mind blown, we know. What makes it especially active is that Dermid's waving a gun at Nina while holding Nefley hostage and demanding that his dad (whom he bit) be released. Yep. Nina wins a price for being active in this scene.

Gladys sure is a downer, right? Here, she's responding to Nina's announcement that she's written an autobiography by saying Nina can't write that kind of narrative because she doesn't have any life experience to write about. Right after this, Dave leaps to Nina's defense, saying that she's done a lot. So maybe a person's experiences and accomplishments are kind of subjective.