Are you OLD?" "No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time.

Are you OLD?" "No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time.

Keep your relationships brief. Don’t let them in. Once they’re inside they have more potential to hurt you. Comfort yourself. You can live with the anguish as long as it only involves yourself. As long as there is no hope.

What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No, it was that she might push him away.

For a few seconds Oskar saw through Eli's eyes. And what he saw was...himself. Only much better, more handsome, stronger than what he thought of himself. Seen with love." (Let the Right One In)

-there was something in her, something that was...pure horror. Everything you were supposed to watch out for. Heights, fire, shards of glass, snakes, Everything that his mom tried so hard to keep him safe from.

Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another.