There are ways in which we’re so alike. We’re reckless. We don’t think before we act. We’ll do anything for people we love. And I never thought how scary that was for the people who loved me until I saw

Have you told Eric and the rest of them that—” “That I’m a vampire? No. It isn’t the sort of thing you just drop into casual conversation.” “Maybe not, but they’re your friends. They should know. And besides, they’ll just think it makes you more of a rock god, like that vampire Lester.” “Lestat,” Simon said. “That would be the vampire Lestat. And he’s fictional.

Tea. I find that both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea.

I can't - I'll chop off my own foot!" "If you're going to chop off anyone's foot, chop off Benedict's," Will muttered.

It is easier to confront a threat as a mass, a group, not individuals who must be evaluated one by one.

Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.

It had been a whim, and there was nothing Magnus attached more importance to than a whim.