Really sucked the red off of all my candy.

Admitting that Katie had taken too much blood was on par with saying an adult human had pooped their pants or eaten their own boogers!

You don't have to shout from the mountaintops. Sometimes power comes in a soft, calm, compassionate way, like a quiet warrior.

Vamps who are dying, or think they are, give a piercing, eardrum-bursting shriek, like the love child of a screech owl and a mountain lion on crystal meth, amplified like a seventies rock band.

Alarm stole over me on little kitten feet.

Walk softly and carry a big stick. Or stomp loudly and carry enough firepower to start a small war. Whatever worked

I figured even the most jaded and cynical inhabitant might report a bloody girl in a party dress carrying a severed head by its hair.

My yoga practice was and will always be a spiritual experience. I can honestly say, "Yoga delivered me back to GOD!"

Chicken, yeah, that's me. I'd rather fight an old rogue-vamp in my underwear, with my bare hands, than deal with relationship problems.

But nothing in life was set in stone and nothing in life is promised us. Not happiness, not joy, not love. Everything was variable and mutable and inconstant.

It looked to me like a vamp version of a pissing contest. Men will be boys.

The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

True happiness will be there when we learn to respect and love our women.

I get all fired up about aging in America.

I'm gonna live my life. I won't watch the time go by. I won't keep it inside. Freak out, let it go.

A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.

I remember thinking, "Far out, I can't believe this," when I started riding waves. Then I was starting to imagine where it could take me.

There's a quickening of her heart when she sees him. She tells herself it's anger.

Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart.

Being, not doing, is my first joy.