[One} who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.

They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel.

My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept.

You can't call your life your own: and in return you have safety, if it's worth having at the price you pay.

You know how you let yourself think that everything will be alright if you can only go to certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?

Stubbs may have envisaged the skeleton inside the horse, but most of us do not

Bigwig: "I can't think why he didn't convince Threarah."Hazel: "Because Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.

Seek the spark of divinity within thy soul.

Trust in God gives self-power.

Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.

The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed as if one is assured of one’s prospects.

And, Kar, love is not a commandment, it is a need, as real as eating.

Explain to me again the difference between superstitious beliefs or pagan incantations, and scientific ones. Be braver - you cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Sadness of love without release.

An aspect of 'post-modern' approach to history is to include the mistakes and the prejudices of the era, without modernizing them or 'correcting' them according to our modern ideals.

Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated...they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.