“Sometimes you have to be alone to think, and sometimes the best place for thinking isn't home.”

“It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.”

“Kid, not everything in life can be summed up neatly in a paragraph. No book has all of the answers. Not even the really good ones. You have to find the answers yourself sometimes.”

“Nothing could convince Aunt Nelly to let Vlad stay home for the duration of the school year, which just goes to prove that parents and guardians don't care if they're sending you to face bloodthirsty monsters, so long as you get a B in English.”

“I'm a creature of the night for God's sake And she wants me home by eleven?”

“I'm too tired to reign over vampirekind, let alone enslave the human race.”

“Vlad made a mental note to amend the friend code: thou shalt not date the girl that thy best friend has a crush on...nor shalt thou try sticking thy best friend in the chest with a sharp hunk of wood.”