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

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.

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?

She rounded on me with such ferocity that for a moment I didn’t recognize her. A flash of fangs, a dark gleam in her blacker-than-night eyes. It was the most vampiric I’d ever seen her.

I'll think of you, just like I promised.""And I'll think of you, just like I have every day, " Tamani said.

What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more.

He learned to trust the Father when circumstances seemed hopeless. Christ used the tool of adversity to forge radiant joy in his spirit.

The sacred heart is filled with joy.

I don't know, 'Zorro' was just so great for me because, knowing where I came from, everyone spoke Spanish to me, like, forever after that. And I'm, like, from Wales.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

I give myself a pep talk and visualize the routine. I tell myself: "I can do this, let's go!"

Angelina Jolie and I love each other. IF that's unusual these days, that's sad.

The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.

Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous.