“Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another.”

“What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No, it was that she might push him away.”

“He couldn't have pulled back the lock, they couldn't simply have climbed over the sides of the stall in all of three seconds, because those weren't the rules of the game.Theirs was the intoxication...”

“There was no one to be seen so she gave in freely to her sobs as she made her way home, pressed her arms against her stomach; the pain lodged in there like an ill-tempered f”

“Eli snorted, her eyes narrowed. Because I am like you. What do you mean like me? I..Eli thrust her hand through the air as if she was holding a knife, said: What are you looking at, idiot? Want to ...”

“No respect for beauty that was characteristic of todays society. The works of the great masters were at most employed as ironic references, or used in advertising. Michelangelos The Creation of Ad...”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”

“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.”