She is so tiresome. ‘Am I a vampire, am I a wolf, am I a vampire, am I a wolf, I cannot decide, so I’ll be both!

Death stalked toward us on padded feet.       And it was not alone.

There was something in her eyes that made me trust her. Maybe it was because they held the same cynicism, the same world-weariness I saw in my own every morning when I looked at myself in the mirror.

A lot of things should have been, Zigmund, but they aren’t. Are you going to be miserable about the things you cannot change, or do something about the things you can?

His character is like an emerald—multifaceted and enhanced by inclusions.

Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldn’t understand why, since she had very little character left to defend.

Thirteen years of friendship had bonded us together more thoroughly than if we had been born of the same mother. Even at this late stage, I was unwilling to let him go.

With Stefan, the line between good and evil, right and wrong, becomes increasingly blurred.

I’d go to hell and back and cut off the devil’s head myself to save you.

Not all vampires are created equal, you know.

Stefan needed me. Ha! Stefan needed me, as what? His next meal?

Even while we hate, we still have that deep unusual  compassion for our rivals, and they hate it when they realize that we are feeling sorry for them.

My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.

Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

When you're spending $200 million on a movie, you need to make $400 million to break even. It's a spectacle.

It was getting hard to keep all the things I didn't know inside me.

And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it.

Having a debate with a modern Christian is like punching a sponge.

If you want to be happy, practise it every day

By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of an NHL playoff series.