Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.

V had a passing thought that she used the word "anyway" like an eraser on a crowded chalkboard. She said it whenever she needed to clear off the things she'd just shared to make room for more.

But then, gifts are like beauty, are they not. It is in the eye of the recipient that they find their seat, not in the hand of the giver.

Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.

An active mind didn't need distractions in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.

A book unopened alters not the ink on its pages. What is there is there.

Okay, well...how's that water feeling, then?' 'Excuse me?' 'The Nile warm this time of the year?

You are done with the past, but the past isn't done with you.

I love you now... I love you immortally, even if I die and there is nothing left of me.

Bad weather always looks worse through a window.

Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

I didn't know at the time that the energy that I was giving off was like a battle Emcee.

I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only today I happen to have a headache.' (Tweedledum)

The sum of all that lives is God.

Temptation always starts in your mind, not in circumstances.

Our challenge is not getting the Lord to speak to us; our challenge is understanding what He has to say.

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.