“I love you, Sofia, I whispered. And I honestly believe that I could never love another woman for the rest of my life. For the first time in the past five hundred years, I am sincerely thankful for ...”

“Dereks. Lucas. Bens. Its beyond me what I must do to make them realize that Im neither object nor possession. I dont belong to any of them.”

“After all, it seemed far nobler to give up ones life to the light than to the dark.”

“This, Derek, is what youre going to turn into without her in your life. You can only get worse from here. This is why you need her.”

“Sometimes, thats the way it is with people. You think you can tell what they are based on the patterns that you see, but when you take a look inside, theyre nothing like you expect them to be.”

“I love you, Sofia,” I whispered. “And I honestly believe that I could never love another woman for the rest of my life. For the first time in the past five hundred years, I am sincerely thankful fo...”

“A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful whole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.”

“The more one judges, the less one loves.”

“[N]one of us drinks the chalice of our existence to the last drop. None of us is fully obedient. Each of us falls short of the human nature entrusted to us.”