“I just want some time, Mikhail, to think things through. Its frightening, the way I am about you. I think about you every minute; I want to touch you, just to know I can, to feel you beneath my fin...”

“You're the kind of man my mother warned me about.”

“-Mikhail?...Try making suggestions next time, or just plain asking. You go do whatever it is you're doing, and I'll go search you extensive library for a book on manners.-You will not find it.-Why ...”

“The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?”

“If you are a vampire, then a vampire is not the creature of the legends.”

“Someone needs to drag you kicking and screaming into this century.”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”