She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.

All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.

You persist in this romantic vision of what it is to be a vampire, but despite my best efforts to curb it I have a taste for blood.

Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.

It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone.

Yes, I see that you are behaving like a prince but that doesn't mean you won't behave like a devil at the first opportunity.

Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world.

Gallowglass returned to Sporrengasse with two vampires and a pretzel.

Just because something seems impossible doesn't make it untrue.

If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only because it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.

I wanted to know how humans came up with a view of the world that had so little magic in it. I needed to understand how they convinced themselves that magic wasn’t important.

As women in today's society, we are encouraged to compare ourselves to other women when what we need to do is focus on our own strengths, our own capabilities, our own beauty.

Make use of every friend— and every foe.

Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends die already. I am alive. It is fantastic.

The two of us could form a new kind of union; we could be free together.

No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill.

I want to launch a globe into space just to mess with the astronauts.

The most important thing you learn at school is that learning only happens by being taught.

We shouldn't penalize those that depend on fossil fuels for energy and the jobs they provide.

It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.

When do you do things for the love of it? Always. If you're not feeling that, go do something else. Life is too short.