Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.

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.

Never criticize, unless you can do a better job.

No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.

I'll do my bit tonight, but forgive me if it's a little harder to keep going than normal. Forgive me if I'm not superwoman after all." "Not superwoman?" he exclaimed, putting a hand on his chest in mock surprise. "You've lied to me all these years!

I wanted to wipe the grin off his face with a fist. I resisted the urge. Who says I have no self-control?

There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.