“Don't expect to know your husband inside and out within a month of marriage. For a long time you will be making discoveries; file them for future reference.”

“Don't look to a husband or a child or a friend or your family to make you happy. It is not within their capacity to do so.”

“Maybe people are strangers because time makes them strangers, not because you don't know them, and people you've never met are strangers because you've spent so long not knowing them.”

“What wild undisturbed corners do you leave within you or within your partner, your children, your parents, your closest friends? What is left respectfully and quietly for passive cultivation, for privacy, for the imagination, for discovery, for serendipity, for faith, for secrecy, for grace, for reverence, for the untapped, for the future, for the unknowable and the unknown?”

“Welcome to the fascinating world of the undead! Please use this guidebook as ahandy reference as you make your first steps toward eternity. Inside you will findinformation on vampire nutrition, relationships, and safety. But before learningabout your future, a word about our past…—From The Guide for the Newly Undead”

“Is this how you get dates? You drag women into your car, lock them inside and don't let them out till they've agreed to go out with you?”