A decision made during a moment of weakness can ruin your life.        To date, I had made three.

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?

Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.

You'll never get to heaven, if you break my heart.

Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved.

I spy with my little eye a great story.

If you're hurt, lick your wounds and get up again. If you've given it your absolute best, it's time to move forward.

Forgive: if you never know forgiveness, You'll never know the blessings that God gives.

When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense.

Everything I do is in the gym so I'm always in gym clothes.

Anybody who has the illusion that you can have a career as long as I have and be a star is kidding themselves.