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.

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

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.

I wanted to know how humans came up with a view of the world that had so little magic in it. I needed to understand how they convinced themselves that magic wasn’t important.

Western police officers are an arguably corrupt group of people that have rigged the system to make them almost untouchable.

It's alright to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.

For paranoia about 'what other people think' : remember that only some hate, a very few love - and almost all just don't care.

I don’t do coupons or Reeboks. Life is too short to half-step.

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.

The one word love means too little for what it is. It doesn't communicate even a fraction of the feelings involved. Love. The word is not enough for what it is. Love. Love.

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.

People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.

Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.