She rounded on me with such ferocity that for a moment I didn’t recognize her. A flash of fangs, a dark gleam in her blacker-than-night eyes. It was the most vampiric I’d ever seen her.

Death stalked toward us on padded feet.       And it was not alone.

There was something in her eyes that made me trust her. Maybe it was because they held the same cynicism, the same world-weariness I saw in my own every morning when I looked at myself in the mirror.

A lot of things should have been, Zigmund, but they aren’t. Are you going to be miserable about the things you cannot change, or do something about the things you can?

His character is like an emerald—multifaceted and enhanced by inclusions.

Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldn’t understand why, since she had very little character left to defend.

Thirteen years of friendship had bonded us together more thoroughly than if we had been born of the same mother. Even at this late stage, I was unwilling to let him go.

With Stefan, the line between good and evil, right and wrong, becomes increasingly blurred.

I’d go to hell and back and cut off the devil’s head myself to save you.

Not all vampires are created equal, you know.

Stefan needed me. Ha! Stefan needed me, as what? His next meal?

I'm convinced that responsibility is some kind of psychological disease.

How can one become free from the mind? If he lives as if he is dead, then he can become free from his mind.

you can't just tell someone to trust you..you gotta show them that they can trust you....

If we can't face it, God can't fix it.

I was born in Wales but I'm not Welsh - I'm English.

I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall never know.

What are you afraid of? I'm afraid of not recognizing Paradise.

Every elected official on this planet should understand - don't play with our children, don't do it.

The curse of cyberspace is that everything we want to preserve will get lost and everything we want to lose will be preserved.

I was annoyed and I was crying [her honest reaction to losing a tennis match at the US Open]