“I couldn't help but see; I wasn't blind. I couldn't help but admire; I wasn't dead”

“I wasn't really able to love someone but I couldn't help but want to be loved.”

“And I couldn't help but think about the time during the operation when there was nothing in my check: when they removed my heart, and before they put the other hear tin. When I was connected to the heart and lunch machine. When I was technically dead....But I wasn't dead now...”

“But I couldn't help myself, couldn't help the way I felt as I recalled the bliss and rush of a vampire's bite.”

“Miles couldn't help admiring women for their ability to dismiss the evidence of their senses. If that's what explained it. If it wasn't simply that from time to time they were unaccountably drawn to the grotesque.”

“I couldn't tell her. I couldn't tell anyone. As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real.”