“What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?”

“But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.”

“When he stopped walking and kissed me a few minutes later, it was like time had stopped, with the air, my heart, and the world all so still. And it was this I remembered every other time I was with Marshall.”

“I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love,
and how you gave me everything you had
and how I offered you what was left of me.”

“For tho' I know he loves me,
To-night my heart is sad;
His kiss was not so wonderful
As all the dreams I had.”

“Oh, wonder! Even in the house of Hades there is left something,
a soul and an image, but there is no real heart of life in it.”

“I was born when he kissed me, I died when he left me, I lived a few weeks while he loved me”

“I left her there crying as I walked toward the gate. A piece of my soul had died when Dimitri had fallen. Turning my back on her now, I felt another piece die as well. Soon there wouldn't be anything left inside me.”

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”

“Don't stop kissing me, vampire, or I will kill you.”