I'm Paige," I whispered. He was serious, for once. "Are you the first page, or the last?" I didn't answer, not right then.

I don't want to die!" "Then you should never been born.

Dive deep into the ocean, Sita, and you will find that the greatest treasures you find are the illusions you leave behind.

The seconds tick. They always do. The power of an entire sun cannot stop them even for a moment, and so death comes between the moments, like a thief of light in the dark.

Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't know what to do!

For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.

I am a vampire," I say softly. "And you have pissed me off.