Within days they'd formed an unholy alliance with a foppish young French vampire in the Garden District who had implausibly golden hair and a streak of ruthlessness as wide as the Mississippi

All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.

You persist in this romantic vision of what it is to be a vampire, but despite my best efforts to curb it I have a taste for blood.

Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.

It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone.

Yes, I see that you are behaving like a prince but that doesn't mean you won't behave like a devil at the first opportunity.

Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world.

She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.

Gallowglass returned to Sporrengasse with two vampires and a pretzel.

Just because something seems impossible doesn't make it untrue.

If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only because it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

You have a deeper, wiser, loving self that you can always ask for help.

Much of life for many people, even in the heart of the First World, still consists of waiting in a bus shelter with your shopping for a bus that never comes.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

Sometimes it's just rejecting stereotypes, sometimes it's creating work. Sometimes it's just blocking out the noise.

There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.

I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright.

Drug smugglers often use juveniles to carry their shipments into the U.S. because they know the juveniles will not be prosecuted if caught.

All literature is gossip.

It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.