Cats were not, in her experience, an animal with much soul. Prosaic, practical little creatures as a general rule. It would suit her very well to be thought catlike.

How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.

The important question is, what will your wear for a wedding dress, Alexia? You look horrible in white.

Highland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted *things*, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table.

He has been mad for you these many months, ever since you prodded him in the nether regions with a hedgehog.

Great, Alexia thought, I have gone from soul sucker to electrical ground. The epithets just get sweeter and sweeter.

The vampire's eyes were open, and he was staring at her intently. It was as though he were trying to speak to her with simply the power of a glare.Alexia did not speak glare-ish.

I swear I won't touch you even with a finger until you ask me yourself.

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

I just need to go to like an island or something.

If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

While I'm doing [writing], I don't feel it.I don't think that's a failing. I think it's just a feature. Like, a feature of oneself.

there's no art but has some business to it and no business but some art.

The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered.

The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing. Lord! the times we've had together!

A mask tells us more than a face.

We don't forget, but something vacant settles in us.