I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him.

Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.

We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.

Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.

Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.

Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.

She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "Yes, " he said finally.

People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.

They wore their strange beauty like war paint.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death - Walt Whitman

Little mouse, " a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?

Jack and Jill slept, wrapped in each other's arms, untroubled by any dream in their cocoon of freshly discovered wrinkly passion.

I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.

You decide to be a musician, you have to put in the time.

The eye that directs a needle in the delicate meshes of embroidery will equally well bisect a star with the spiderweb of the micrometer.

There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion.

The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good.

There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke.

The only good hero is the kind who survives to talk about merchandising.

You will look in vain to see Donald Trump ever taking responsibility for anybody and apologize.

The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.