Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

This is why I loved the support groups so much, if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. Everything else about their checkbook balance and radio songs and messy hair went out the window. You had their full attention. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't just telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.

The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.

The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.

The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked.

Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.