How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.

The important question is, what will your wear for a wedding dress, Alexia? You look horrible in white.

Highland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted *things*, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table.

Cats were not, in her experience, an animal with much soul. Prosaic, practical little creatures as a general rule. It would suit her very well to be thought catlike.

He has been mad for you these many months, ever since you prodded him in the nether regions with a hedgehog.

Great, Alexia thought, I have gone from soul sucker to electrical ground. The epithets just get sweeter and sweeter.

The vampire's eyes were open, and he was staring at her intently. It was as though he were trying to speak to her with simply the power of a glare.Alexia did not speak glare-ish.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded.

After losing LaRoche, I have to step up a little bit. I have to do what I need to do.

People who continue to nurture long-term and new friendships as they grow older are more likely to enjoy health and vitality.

You [ the American President] can print more money, you just print and pay. I mean, it's a bad option, but you can do it.

We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim "never say never" is one of the most important in ethics.

The essence of spiritual life is simply to use our free will properly.

I love humor. I always will fall back on humor. That's something that I think you can't ever get enough of and, if it's done well, it's great. When it's bad, it's horrible.

I'm not a crazy, party-going sort of person.

A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going into the crime solving business.