It is good to be busy. Being busy takes our mind off being in love at the wrong time, in the wrong place and with the wrong guy.

I'm up for it. Whatever it is. As long as it means I'll always be with you.

That was the thing about pictures--they were worth a thousand words, but sometimes they weren't the right ones.

A promise, a bond, a joy, a love for the ages, for the history books.…But what was love but pain?

It didn't help that she was painfully shy and kept to herself, because then they just thought she was stuck-up, which she wasn't. She was just quiet.

A bad boy can be very good for a girl.

School was more than academics; an education prepared you for the humdrum of real life: working with others, tempering one's personality to assimilate with the group but without losing your individual identity, understading the factors of logic, reasoning, and debate. For a person - vampire or human - to succeed in the world, unlocking the mysteries of the universe was insufficient. One would also need to grasp the mysteries of human nature.