“A brain with no heart and no reasoning ... well, nothing is more meaningless.”

“You may be to call up the entire encyclopedia, but a brain with no heart and no reasoning .. well, nothing is more meaningless.”

“You may be able to call up an entire encyclopedia, but nothing is more meaningless than a brain with no heart and no reasoning”

“If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own.”

“School was more than academics; an education prepared you for the humdrum of real life: working with others, tempering one's personality to assimilate with the group but without losing your individual identity, understading the factors of logic, reasoning, and debate. For a person - vampire or human - to succeed in the world, unlocking the mysteries of the universe was insufficient. One would also need to grasp the mysteries of human nature.”

“She could not trust herself to hope—but without hope, she realized, she had no reason to go on.”

“The more things change, the more they stay different.”