Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.

People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God.

Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.

Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.

Even angels must find their wings too heavy sometimes.

The rush of power to the head is not as becoming as a new hat

It's especially fitting that they call a cruise ship 'she,' for she is pregnant with a thousand adult embryos who long to stay forever warm and sheltered in this great white womb.