Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long time. They don't see things the way we do.

Let me give you a piece of advice. The handsome young fellow who's trying to rescue you from a hideous fate is never wrong. Not even if he says the sky is purple and made of hedgehogs.

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

Your angel cannot protect you against that which neither god nor the devil had made

Will looked horrified. "What kind of monster could possibly hate chocolate?

It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.

It isn't against the Law to be an idiot.

Demon pox. There's always demon pox.

He banged on the side of the carriage. "Thomas! We must away at once to the nearest brothel. I seek scandal and low companionship.

While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way.

When you find a man you wish to marry, Tessa, remember this: You will know what kind of man he is not by the things he says, but by the things he does.

I think, therefore a single fertilized egg cell can replicate itself into trillions of specialized and exquisitely organized cells.

You must always be proactive

This means that I don't have to run faster than the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal, I just have to run faster than whoever is with me when the psychotic-maniac-vampire-cannibal starts chasing us.

Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!

The sanctity of law can be maintained only so long as it is the expression of the will of the people.

I have a jar at home, and I put pennies in it whenever I curse. The other day I spilled the jar. I owe it about $25.

Harder is Better! Post work out! Foot in the Ice Bath. A girl has to make a living! #hardcandytoronto. #addictedtosweat

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

The best people know that they should join a rocketship.

You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them.