“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.”

“Monique whirled around and ran to her husband. Pray with me, pray with me. We are going to die this night, Alexander. Raven shut the door and leaned against it. Dont panic on me, Monique. We have a...”

“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.”

“nights and days came and passedand summer and winterand the sun and the windand the rain.and it was good to be a little islanda part of the worldand a world of its ownall surrounded by the bright b...”

“When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground it makes a loud crashing sound. When a window shatters a table leg breaks or when a picture falls off the wall it makes a noise. But as for your heart...”

“A good friend of mine once said, "I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child.”

“It was four o'clock of a stickily wet Saturday. As long as it is anything from Monday to Friday the average library attendant goes around thanking her stars she isn't a school-teacher; but the last...”

“The world is quiet here.”

“I've always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library.”

“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”

“While our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which are now producing desolation in so many parts of the world; while she continues sincere, and incapable of insidious and imp...”

“Wealth of good manners is what no one can steal from you. You can keep it with you wherever you go.”