“People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.”

“Yes, I can talk and think at the same time. Most people can, though I suppose you wouldn't know that from personal experience.Elena (Bitten)”

“Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.”

“Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you don’t know and have compassion for them at the same time?”

“You know you can be as sweet as you want, or as tough as you want, or both at the same time.”

“If one must have a worst enemy, it is best to choose a former lover, who will know best how to tempt and torment.”