“But if I die without trying again, I'm a coward. I don't mind having regrets about stuff I've done. It's the regrets about stuff I haven't done that bother me.”

“Ah, relationships. If he was lucky, Luke thought, he would never have another one.”

“And what was I if not death's ghostwriter?”

“Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.”

“The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.”

“When you have too much faith in something, it's bound to hurt you. Too much faith in anything will suck you dry. In this way, all the world is a vampire.”

“Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.”

“Without form, communication stops... without form, you have everybody burbling on to themselves, whenever and however, things that no one else can understand and - rightly - no one else is interest...”

“A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand. ”

“Does he lay with you in the grass? Does he stare up at the stars, speaking of his dreams, wishing he could roll over and kiss you and run his fingers along the breasts that tease him beneath the sh...”

“The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.”

“I'm as passionate as any car owner or car collector that has one car or 300 cars.”

“You turn me on from across the room, and Ill completely melt if you come any closer.”

“I want you in every way possible and in ways youve probably never even imagined. Your saving grace is I dont sleep with vamps. If things were different we wouldnt be talking and youd be enjoying th...”

“Hes kissing me everywhere, squeezing me, running his fingers over places no one else has touched”