“... to have a lover and friend in one was the best love of all.”

“Life is short, have dessert first.”

“One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in the hands of people of low status, a class it holds in contempt.”

“She preferred keeping her mouth shut and appearing a fool to opening it and removing the doubt.”

“All beings, including each one of us, enemy and friend alike, exist in patterns of mutuality, interconnectedness, co-responsibility and ultimately in unity.”

“The Night World isn't a place. It's all around us. The creatures of Night World are beautiful and deadly and irresitable to humans. Your best friend could be one-so could your crush.”

“Many lovers have come and goneSome I miss and some I don't.Some were handsome, none were plain; My good fortune, I suppose.”