Compromise is an imperfect act.
There is some comfort in killing that which has hurt you, but it is cold comfort. It’ll destroy things inside of you that the original pain wouldn’t have harmed. Sometimes it’s not a question of whether a piece of your soul is going to go missing, only which piece it’s going to be.
It’s not the fur or the fangs that make you a monster, not always. Sometimes, it’s just where you draw the line.
Be nice, be nice, until it’s time to stop being nice, then destroy them.
Why is it that most things you might willingly do under other circumstances become distasteful when you have no choice?
Magic, if that was the right word, often rises and falls on your own belief in your abilities. I’ve seen very powerful people completely crippled by self-doubt.
Anyone who doesn’t believe that the forest is a deadly place has never been lost in one.
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.
You are an abomination before God. Jesus loves you too, I said smiling.
What do you do when you know you are breaking someone’s heart, but to do anything else would break your own?
I’m very judgmental person. It’s one of my faults.
When you apologize, try not to smile at the same time. It ruins the effect.
Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another.
Sometimes the greatest wounds are the ones we try the hardest not to inflict.
Children make that big a difference to you? He asked. I nodded. Yeah, they do. I never figured you as the maternal type. I’m not, but kids are people, Edward, little people trapped by the choices the adults around them make.
A crowd is an elemental thing. A word, a glance, and a crowd becomes a mob.
One serial killer sends me a human head in a box, and I get all spooked; Go figure.
Pretend I asked, now answer the question...
I will go to my grave seeing the look on your face at the last. Keep it up and you’ll go sooner than later.
I know the universe has a sense of irony, and sometimes you get reminded just how sadistic that can be.