Keep your relationships brief. Don’t let them in. Once they’re inside they have more potential to hurt you. Comfort yourself. You can live with the anguish as long as it only involves yourself. As long as there is no hope.

For a few seconds Oskar saw through Eli's eyes. And what he saw was...himself. Only much better, more handsome, stronger than what he thought of himself. Seen with love. (Let the Right One In)

Are you OLD? No. I'm only twelve. But I've been that for a long time.

It was as if she lived only on clear, salty air, and when the day came for her to pass away, she would probably do exactly that. Just take a step to one side. Dissolve into a north-westerly wind as it whirled around the lighthouse at North Point, then out across the sea.

What he was scared of was not that maybe she was a creature who survived by drinking other people's blood. No, it was that she might push him away.

-there was something in her, something that was...pure horror. Everything you were supposed to watch out for. Heights, fire, shards of glass, snakes, Everything that his mom tried so hard to keep him safe from.

That's how things are these days: everything must move aside to make room for the new, all the time.

Real love is to offer your life at the feet of another.

This wasn't the way he had expected his life to be. It worked, but that was about all. Happiness had got lost somewhere along the way.