“The story of a woman who was scared of the dark and a man who was scared of love, who’d come together to overcome all their fears…”

“I swear, sometimes talking to you is like trying to converse with a tree. A very big, very solid, very male tree.”

“Then you have this other phenomena of the paranormal romance. It's all the benefits of being a vampire without the sacrifices. By the gods, Meyer's vampires walk around sparkling in the daylight and some are vegetarians. But this phenomenon is also tied to a lot of our communal fears. Fear of aging. Fear of fading youth. Fear of loneliness. But whereas the classic motifs are more concerned with confronting and overcoming our fears, the fears of the paranormal romance genre become twisted fantasies of denial. The idea of staying young, attractive and powerful for eternity feeds into the modern self-absorbed ethos.”

“You're scared?'He shook his head. 'Floppy's scared.''What's Floppy scared of?''The man in the closet”

“The man who will wholeheartedly deserve your love is the man who will be there at your lowest, the one who loves you in all your shades—the light, the hued and the dark.”

“I want to go where you're going. I'm not scared of dying. I want to stay together and come back together. You said that souls cohere. I want to stay with you.”

“Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin.”