She was torn between the impulse to run and the urge to curl up like a pill bug, close her eyes, tuck her head beneath her arms, and play the game of since-I-can't-see-monsters-monsters-can't-see-me.

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

The worst mockery God can make of a moralist is that He compels him to be asolipsist.

When you forgive, it does not mean that you have submitted, it simply means that you have made a choice to stop bearing any grudge.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith.

The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles of our system of government.

I'm really thriving and enjoying being a part of a really vibrant creative team and doing creative work.

I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.

I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I write the way some people do drugs.

You can never ask others to do something you would not do. That is integrity.

There is a lot of difference between the man who is not able and his brother who is notable.