I don't want to be a vampire' she told herself. But in her dreams, she kind of did.

Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.

We all wind up drawn to what we're afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.

Maybe it was that nearly everyone else was dead and she felt a little bit dead too, but she figured that even a vampire deserved to be saved. Maybe she ought to leave him, but she wasn't going to.

Keep going' she told herself, 'Don't look back.' But she looked anyways.

Even from the beginning, that was the problem. People liked pretty things. People even liked pretty things that wanted to kill and eat them.

She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "Yes, " he said finally.

I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him.

People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death.

They wore their strange beauty like war paint.

Nothing can happen more beautiful than death - Walt Whitman

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion.

You were made to soar, to crash to earth, then to rise and soar again.

Now peculiar scraps of knowledge were stuck to him like lint from all his jobs.

If the best the roboticists can hope for is the creation of some crude, cheesy, second-rate, artificial consciousness, they still win.

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world

I have a fear of heights and I'm claustrophobic.

The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.

When I was very young I never thought I was attractive, because I was a tomboy and I was always the biggest girl in the class.

Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth