please, Tana, please.' -lots of characters in The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

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

Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.

You don't have to wait for things to happen to live your life.

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

A winter without snow seems depressing, lacking.

A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.

There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar.

He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.

I don't know, I just got a feeling about her. You know when a song comes on and you just gotta dance?

If I could know me, I could know the universe.

As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me.