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“I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger, and I cannot admit the irrationality of love.”

“Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.”

“We shall live even in this state of living death, we shall love, we shall feel, we shall defy all who would judge and destroy us.”

“Don't be a fool for the Devil, darling.”

“We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.”

“Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on”

“There are so many books I mean to read, and things I mean to see.”

“The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world.”

“I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.”

“I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.”

“Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.”

“Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.”

“Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.”

“Let the flesh instruct the mind.”

“I wish you'd fall in love with me," she said.
"Why?"
"Because you're really someone worth falling in love with. And if we were in love, I wouldn't be drifting. I wouldn't be nobody. At least not while I was with you.”

“I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.”

“A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.”

“when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us”

“Do you know what I think about crying? I think some people have to learn to do it. But once you learn, once you know how to really cry, there's nothing quite like it. I feel sorry for those who don't know the trick. It's like whistling or singing.”

“You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die.
And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.”

“A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse.”

“Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart.”

“I assume I don't need an introduction.”

“I am an unwilling devil. I cry like some vagrant child. I want to go home.”

“The earth here is beautiful. And it still belongs to the dead.”

“The human heart is my school.”

“I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.”

“The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.”

“One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.”