I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no one has the right to just arbitrarily snuff them out.” "So it is the sanctity of life you cling to?" I nodded. “That and the fact that every human being is special. Every death is a loss of something precious and irreplaceable.

When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.

True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's illusion and lies to me.

Fear will keep you alive; indifference won't.

A woman will forget that a man is male, if they are good enough friends, but men rarely forget that a woman is feminine.

If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.

If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.