This wasn't the way he had expected his life to be. It worked, but that was about all. Happiness had got lost somewhere along the way.

Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another.

When there's nothing to see, when there are no thoughts, life comes instead.

What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No, it was that she might push him away.

That's how things are these days: everything must move aside to make room for the new, all the time.

But then, it's probably different when you're young.

A new life? There’s not such thing. It was only in the magazine headlines that people got a new life. Stopped drinking or taking drugs, found a new love. But the same life.

No one thought of anything but themselves. My happiness, my future was the only thing you heard. Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another, and that's what people today are incapable of

For a few seconds Oskar saw through Eli's eyes. And what he saw was...himself. Only much better, more handsome, stronger than what he thought of himself. Seen with love." (Let the Right One In)

Are you OLD?" "No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time.

That's how you should be. Accept your burden and carry it, with joy.

Sometimes if you want to stand out, you at first have to blend in.

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

Bernie Sanders would say, "You still have millions of African Americans who aren't insured, and if we had a single-payer system, that wouldn't be the case." And that's true.

Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.

Pareto's Principle: you generally spend 80% of your time on 20% of the project.

It's History that's caused all the troubles in the past.

You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

A disturbing novel about dreams and wishes, a nightmarish distaff monkey's paw of a book that it's impossible to forget. Lisa Tuttle remains our preeminent chronicler of family madness and desire.

Fasting is an amazing thing. It gives people heart and soul.

I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.