Ryka had encouraged me to have a summer fling. The only fling I'd ever had with a guy was when Felix Lewis flung me in the air during cheeleading tryouts.

Predictions are just good guesses or stories for the gullible.

Courage, my child, is not the absence of fear. It's the triumph over fear.

You talk too much.""Maybe you talk too little.""You're going to live forever. Pace yourself.

I just thought vampires would look, you know, vicious while drinking blood," I said. "You look like you're in kindergarten with your juice pack.

Audentes fortuna iuvat. Fortune favors the bold.

Sorry, dear. This isn´t fairy tale. There´s no happily ever after. Just... ever after.