“Please recall that she rescued you from torture not so many years ago, and do try to be nice" LoboI remembered, but the last thing I wanted was social coaching from a killing machine. Jon”

“Of course," Lobo said. "It's not like this is my first dance, and it's not as if you've cornered the market on paranoia.”

“Just my luck: My bloodthirsty killing machine was better with both kids and women than I was.”

“He thinks I suffer from depression. But I’m just quiet. Solitude and depression are like swimming and drowning. In school many years ago, I learned that flowers sometimes unfold inside themselves.”

“Foolish questions will make you genius”

“I lost Susy thirteen years ago; I lost her mother--her incomparable mother!--five and a half years ago; Clara has gone away to live in Europe and now I have lost Jean. How poor I am, who was once so rich! . . . Jean lies yonder, I sit here; we are strangers under our own roof; we kissed hands good-by at this door last night--and it was forever, we never suspecting it. She lies there, and I sit here--writing, busying myself, to keep my heart from breaking. How dazzling the sunshine is flooding the hills around! It is like a mockery. Seventy-four years ago twenty-four days. Seventy-four years old yesterday. Who can estimate my age today?”

“I was 17 years old when I was killed by a vampire"-Ruby Kennedy from My Handsome Vampire.”