That hurt querida, that really hurt

I think we're given multiple chances to meet multiple soulmates. Sure, you could meet a soulmate in highschool. But that doesn't mean if you don't act on it, you'll never meet anyone else. You will, just at a time that's more convenient for you.

Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.

I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.

We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.

Do not listen to her," Alaric said. "She is going to tell you in some kind of code only the two of you will understand, because you are siblings, to call the police on your cell phone. But if you do that, I will kill you and dispose of your body in a place where no one will find it. The river, I think. Your doorman is so stupid, he won't notice if I leave this building carrying a body in a rolled-up carpet.

It's what's known as an origin myth. What happened to me? That's no myth.