Nobody's cut out for this town, " Shane said. "Nobody sane anyway.""Says the kid who came back.""Yeah, kind of proves my point.

Myrnin said softly. "And how is it that you do not understand that HERE, in THIS place, this girl belongs to me, not to you?

Myrnin turned away to pick up his Ben Franklin spectacles, balanced them on his nose, and looked over them to say, "Don't do drugs. I feel I ought to say that.

Michael had to pound me a couple of times to convince me not to go stage a rescue." Shane shrugged. "He hits like a girl, for a vampire.

Whatever, crazy chick who maybe lives here and maybe also breaks into Michael's house when they're all gone. I'm out. Have a nice delusion. -Shayne

An intriguing world where vampires rule, only the strongest survive, and romance offers hope in the darkest hours.

She can go with us to the lab and keep Myrnin pinned down while we pull the plug, if he's not... you know, better.""Define BETTER with that guy.""Not all fangs and raaaaar.

See?" she heard Shane yell at the kitchen. "She doesn't stomp around like a cattle stampede!""Bite me, Collins! No bacon for you, either!

Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.”“I hardly think there’s any chance of that, ” Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity.

I think so, ” she [Claire] said. “Just watch your back, okay?” “Nah, Michael’s got mine.” He [Shane] looked straight into her eyes.“I’ve got yours.

I never meant it, " he was saying. "Never meant it to happen. Can't stand it, seeing her suffer. Must do something, do something... What do I do? What can I do...?

We're all blessed and we're all blighted, Chief Inspector, " said Finney. "Everyday each of us does our sums. The question is, what do we count?

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

Voyager upon life's sea: - To yourself be true And whate'er your lot may be Paddle your own canoe.

Man is the measure of all things.

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives

There is the old boys' club, but there are ­people who are "conviction lobbyists" coming from the heart.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

It's easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out.

It's the closest I've come to touching immortality, by reading the words of dead people.

Proactive people carry their own weather with them.