“Maybe we'll have vampire prom."He shot me an appalled look. "What is this, Twilight?”

“Twilight is to Vampires what My Little Pony is to Kentucky Derby Winning Horses.”

“Have you ever noticed there's no twilight in Africa? [...] It must affect the way the psyche develops. I think it makes people here stronger. No gentle twilight to ease them into the darkness. Maybe it's twilight that makes Westerners so sentimental. They can sit on their porches and watch day recede as night approaches. It gives them time to consider what they're going to lose. It's like dying slowly versus being shot.”

“The angel of death can hardly have friends. And the prom, what about Danny? He can hardly have a Valkyrie for his date.”

“I read the following: Three local girls arrested in connection with area-wide drug-distribution ring, caught en route to the Collinsville South High Prom."Your mother thinks we'll have news crews camped on our lawn," He said.I was less concerned about that and more concerned that it was now forever in black and white that we had been dateless for the prom.”

“What do you see in a guy like Christian Prescott?" he asked me that night when he dropped me off from prom. And what he was really saying then, what would have come through loud and clear if I hadn't been so blind was, why don't you see me?”