“Here's some advice. Stay alive.”
“Mark glanced at his watch and sighed. "Look, I have to go, but I'm serious, Rose. Stay here. Stay out of trouble. Fight Strigoi if they come to you, but don't go seeking them blindly. And definitely leave the ghosts alone. " It was a lot of advice to get in a grocery store, a lot of advice I wasn't sure I could follow.”
“the object was not to stay alive but to stay human.”
“But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.”
“Its not staying alive, its being alive”
“A man with a sword has a means to stay alive. A man with a named sword has a reason to stay alive.”