Wordlessly I looked back at him, astonished that a kiss on the palm could be so intimate.

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.

You ought to welcome troubled-souls with your peaceful-spirit.

Democracy

Standing by the frozen glass, he stared down at the icy, barely lit streets running towards the river Seine, the bell-clanging local church, then to the sky like black lead. ("Israbel")

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.

Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful

For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.

Keep in mind that we're always up to other things, so we tend to sit on things from time to time. In an uninterrupted world, I think we could have each of the tales finished, soup to nuts, in a week.

Now my helmet's on, you can't tell me I'm not in space.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

I pay attention as much as I can. I try to surround myself with other women with magical powers and a lot falls under the heading "magical powers."