“How do I explain a life that has lasted for billions of years? It is almost as if I must start with an apology for being alive when everyone I once knew is dead.”

“How much modern civilization has lost, I think, when they lost the awareness of the billions of stars overhead.”

“Most of all I grieve for my soul because even though I do, finally, believe there is a God, and that I have met him, I do not know if he has given me an immortal soul, but only one that was to last me as long as my body lasted. I do not know if when the last page of my book is closed, that will be the end of me.”

“I'm Paige," I whispered.He was serious, for once. "Are you the first page, or the last?"I didn't answer, not right then.”

“It is a paradox. Life is that way. God designed it that way. I believe I met him once. He was full of mischief.”

“-I do not want to die- Then you should not have been born (Sita)Last Vampire”

“The late hour is such a friend; it has been for so many years. There is not a soul around as I carry Riley downstairs and dump him in my trunk. It is good, for I am not in the mood to kill again, and murder, for me, is very much tied to my mood, like making love. Even when it is necessary.”