I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.

If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

Mercy will get you killed, but sometimes it's all that makes us human.

I wasn't like most girls.

I cannot do it. I cannot bear it. I cannot go back to what I was here. I cannot stand at her side and watch another take her. I am not that strong or that good.

The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian.

I told her why we are here. I told you wouldn't hurt Jack." "The coffin?" I smiled. I couldn't help it. He was a 'jack in a box.