Her kiss could kill us, and my consent signed our death certificates, selfishly and without control. (Eric)

One moment of true happiness was worth all the moments of pain. (Jessica)

I wasn’t sure what was worse: being oblivious or living within reality. (Eric)

Don’t trust anybody else—no matter how close you are to them.” (Eric)

I wanted to protect her, and, if I couldn’t do that, I’d at least be there for her. (Eric)

My insanity begged for a distraction. (Eric)

I wasn’t in the mood for a fight, but fights weren’t always conveniently scheduled. (Jessica)

Everything seemed so unreal—so supernatural—and I had to remind myself that is was. We weren’t human. We never were. (Jessica)

I’d prefer you accuse my son, so he can defend his innocence rather than prolong unnecessary guilt." (Spoken by Bracke, told by Eric)

Identity was everything, but it seemed I never had one. (Jessica)

Just because I wasn’t human, didn’t mean I could discount human life. (Eric)

It's always darkest before dawn. We just have to wait a little while longer. The sun always rises.

But are they heroes or mere dreamers?

There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or the state.

Books are the carriers of civilization... Books are humanity in print.

A delicate thought is a flower of the mind.

We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.

History is a conversation and sometimes a shouting match between present and past, though often the voices we most want to hear are barely audible.

It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy.

It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.

I can't figure out why fans keep coming, maybe it's because they dig the songs.