“We always vilify what we don't understand.”

“The villains were always ugly in books and movies. Necessarily so, it seemed. Because if they were attractiveif their looks matched their charm and their cunningthey wouldn't only be dang”

“I want to be your last thought at night, and your first taste at dawn.”

“Conquest was not satisfying if it began with a surrender.”

“You are fifty different kinds of twisted.""Only fifty? Val, you wound me.”

“It takes many sheep to satisfy one wolf.”

“We feel most alive when we are closest to death.”

“There is a child - a baby - who long since kicked off her blankets. Her skin is ashen and her mouth open in a perpetual yet silent scream. She isn't old enough to roll over, to sit up, to climb. So...”

“Conquest was not satisfying if it began with a surrender.”

“I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”

“Souls are flowers, only God has the right to pluck them. But those who commit suicide: their souls are the rotten blossoms of devil's garden.”

“We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.”

“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”

“Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore.”