“Violent death is like a monster. The closer you get to it, the more damage you sustain if you survive at all.”
“A monster. You and your friends, all of you. Pretty monsters. It's a stage all girls go through. If you're lucky you get through it without doing any permanent damage to yourself or anyone else.”
“Death in the horror movies is when the monsters get you.”
“It was better not to get too close to another person. The closer you got, the more likely you were to get hurt.”
“There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get”
“look, getting bitten doesn't make you into a monster. It just makes you a wolf. You are what you are. When you're a wolf, or when you're shifting, you don't have human inhibitions, so if you're naturally angry or violent, you get worse.”