“If all it took to become vampire was to be bitten by one, then the world would have been overrun with vampires millennia ago.”

“Humans time and again demonstrated they were capable of perpetrating crimes as vile and gruesome as any vampire.”

“To become a vampire, you must be bitten by one. To become a ninja, you first have to allow yourself to be one.”

“We've been caught in a wildly passionate, completely one-sided affair since freshman year.”

“That's my brother," I said. "Saving the world, one girl at a time.”

“All of them are the same type; girls with overprocessed hair and too much makeup and way too much access to Daddy’s credit cards. Girls who, if you took away the designer labels, hair dye and cover-up, wouldn’t be more than average-looking, but with all that stuff look too plastic to be pretty.”

“It's the best kind of devastating there is. He took his pain and he turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you. What I'm trying to say is, it's just nice, I guess, knowing that someone else can put into words what I feel. That there are people who have been through things worse than I have, and they came out on the other side okay. Not only that, but they have made some kind of twisted, effed up sense of the completely senseless. They made it mean something. These songs tell me I'm not alone. If you look at it that way, music...music can see you through anything.”