“Vampires, like virgins or priests, are things that women believe in. We must never fail to humor them in such matters.”

“Fear, if not accompanied by pain, turns into a habit”

“Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.”

“So we must realize this: the suicidal framing story that dominates our world today has no power except the power we give it by believing it. Similarly, believing an alternative and transforming framing story may turn out to be the most radical thing any of us can ever do.”

“Everyone has that one line they swear they'll never cross, the one thing they say they'll never do. Not something serious like I'll never kill anyone or I'll never invade Russia in the winter. Usually, it's something less earth-shattering.I'll never cheat on her.I'll never work at a job I hate.I'll never give up on my dreams.We draw the line. Maybe we even believe it. That's why it's so hard when we break that promise we make to ourselves.Sage Hendricks was my line.”

“I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like to believe it's worthwhile. And yet, I can't help but recall something ... said to me once when I was young: "All of these things with which we occupy ourselves don't amount to much in the cosmic scale of things, do they? No matter how extensively we ponder any particular topic, there is really very little there"--Gilbertus Albans, Reflections in the Mirror of the Mind”

“In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms grown strong with loveAnd there may be many things we forget in the days to come,But this will not be one of them.”