I didn’t even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn’t need one to know her. (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)

Do I need permission to breathe, Sir?

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.

We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)

I challenge you, to go to any school and open 50 lunchboxes, and I guarantee you there will be one or two cans of Red Bull, there'll be cold McDonald's and jam sandwiches with several cakes.

All religions are the same. They all lead to God. God is everybody.

When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?

Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.