Confidence has brought them out into the light, but they seem to have forgotten - light's no good for creatures of the night.

I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever.

...The pain didn't bother me. In fact, I welcome it: It meant I was alive.

... please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish." "You most certainly were." "You are cruel, Evanna.

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

For an hour or more he was neither human nor vampire, just a howling, hungry creature of dark delights.

What use was money if you didn't have the time to enjoy it?