“Dont tell me youre afraid of heights, she said, shimmying along the edge.Not heights, he murmured. Just falling.”

“You wanted to feel alive, right? It doesn't matter if you're monster or human. Living hurts.”

“She cracked a smile. "So what's your poison" He sighed dramatically, and let the truth tumble off his tongue. "Life." "Ah," she said ruefully. "That'll kill you.”

“I am Sunai, he said. I am holy fire. And if I have to burn the world to cleanse it, so help me, I will.”

“Sing you a song and steal your soul.”

“There are no monsters in the dark.”

“We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.”

“The problem is this: nature has assembled all these species on this planet. The human species is no more important than any other species on this planet. For some reason, man accorded himself a sup...”

“More than the disappearing trees and roses, its the human tendency to suppress the Natural Voice of the Natures Man which is sorrowful.”

“To be of value to humanity, start by thinking for yourself.”

“Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.”

“The General belonged to the learned type of military men who believed that liberal and humane views can be reconciled with their profession. But being by nature a kind and intelligent man, he soon ...”

“I stand before her, meeting her eye to eye and nose to nose. My head takes a slight bow as I clench my fist. I should have just killed you like any other bloodsucking vampire.So why didnt you? She ...”

“War is a monster. War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows. And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.”

“Maybe becoming a monster is a sign of strength.”