💬 Quotes

"The thing is, you have to be able to make a mistake. You have to be allowed to mess up, or you're not really living."

"If you don't have a problem, you don't have a life."

"The main thing was to keep moving, to keep the machinery of one's own existence running despite the encroaching obsolescence."

"He felt that the only way to be happy was to be delusional, and he wasn't sure he had the talent for it."

"The culture is a machine that devours its own past, and it is our job to be the digestive juices."

"You can’t just stop caring about someone because they’ve changed. You have to decide if the person they are now is someone you can still love."

"Death is not the end. It’s just a different kind of beginning. But for us, it’s a beginning that involves a lot more blood and a lot less sunshine."

"There are some choices you make that you can never come back from. Some lines you cross where the other side is a place you don't recognize."

"I’m not a hero. I’m just a girl who happens to be a telepath, and I’m tired of being used as a tool by people who don't care if I live or die."

"The thing about being a vampire is that you have all the time in the world to get even, and Eric Northman was a man who never forgot a slight."

"Humans think that just because we’re dead, we’ve lost the capacity for basic manners. It’s actually quite the opposite; we have nothing but time to practice them."

"My mind is a crowded, noisy, and often unkind place to be, and I would give anything for just one moment of absolute silence."

"There are things in this world that are far worse than death, and I have had the misfortune of meeting most of them in the last few months."

"You have a very dangerous habit of assuming that because someone is beautiful, they must also be good."

"It was just a room, but it was a room that had been lived in, and it had its own atmosphere, a stillness that had nothing to do with emptiness."

"The past is never really behind us, is it? It’s part of the present. It’s part of what we are."

"One day, when the light is right, I shall paint it. And then, at last, I shall be satisfied."

"It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

"We are all of us alone, really, but some of us are better at pretending we aren't than others."

"Everything changes, and yet, in some strange way, nothing changes at all. We are simply carrying on, piece by piece, as those before us did."