“The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.”
“Vlad made a mental note to amend the friend code: thou shalt not date the girl that thy best friend has a crush on...nor shalt thou try sticking thy best friend in the chest with a sharp hunk of wood.”
“If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.”
“Sometimes you have to be alone to think, and sometimes the best place for thinking isn't home.”
“If stakes and garlic were the top two things that could kill a vampire, ninth grade gym was a close third.”
“Don't you find any irony in a vampire sucking up?”
“It was tough attempting to be social with people who'd rather pretend you didn't exist.”
“Otis D'ablo is alive! Do you here me? He is alive and trying to kill me!”
“Do you believe i am the Pravus?”
“People says it gets easier. People are stupid."
-Vlad”
“It's funny how getting stabbed through the heart by a friend can bring your whole school year down.”
“Some grown-ups could be so inherently stupid. Try banning homework sometime. You might see those straight A's so many parents long for.”
“So with nothing to do but algebra, Vlad settled down in front of the television with controller in hand.”
“If I ever find you lurking about in my thoughts again, Vlad, I will be most displeased. You stay out of my mind, and I'll sty out of yours. Agreed?”
“He understood very well that it was just because of this intimacy that their marriage had not survived.”
“why Phoebe always dipped her food into tea before she ate it (she said she had soft teeth and didn’t want to lose them before she got too old to catch a husband).”
“Kids know what's going on. They always respond to The Beatles, for instance. Doesn't matter when they were born, they always seem to respond. Show me a kid who innately doesn't like The Beatles, and I'll show you a bad seed.”
“Note that life after death, which still seems to you the essential thing, was itself a late revelation. God trained the Hebrews for centuries to believe in Him without promising them an after-life, and blessings on Him, he trained me in the same way for about a year. It is like the disguised prince in the fairy tale who wins the heroine's love before she knows he is anything more than a woodcutter. What would be a bribe if it came first had better come last.”
“Those of us who hope to be their allies should not be surprised, if and when this day comes, that when those who have been locked up and locked out finally have to chance to speak and truly be heard, what we hear is rage. The rage may frighten us; it may remind us of riots, uprisings and buildings aflame. We may be tempted to control it or douse it with buckets of doubt, dismay or disbelief. But we should do no such thing. Instead, when a young man who was born in the ghetto and who knows little of life beyond the walls of his prison cell and the invisible cage that has become his life, turns to us in bewilderment and rage, we should do nothing more than look him in the eye and tell him the truth.”
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