You said you were allowed to lose it, ' some part of her reminded herself. 'Not yet, not yet.

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.

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

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

She knew that pleasure, to be pleasure, must come to an end.

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

It is a conviction that war is not an answer to human conflict any more than cannibalism is an answer to human hunger.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

Healing is the discovery of the Divinity within.

The opportunities of living are diminished in proportion as what are called the "means" are increased.

My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets.

Never tell me the sky is the limit when the zoning code clearly imposes a stricter limit.