Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it.

God, why didn't you make us all dogs?

One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.

I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

That morning I was not yet a vampire, and I saw my last sunrise. I remember it completely, and yet I can't recall any sunrise before it. I watched the whole magnificence of the dawn for the last time as if it were the first. And then I said farewell to sunlight, and set out to become what I became.

So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end.

[...] so important to believe in a concept of goodness, even if we make it up ourselves. We don't really make it up. it's there, isn't it?" "Oh, yes, it's there," she said. "It's there because we put it there.