I think vampires are different from human beings, but they're sentenced to eternity on this planet. They have the same confusion about love and permanence, integrity, and denial. These qualities really are the same in vampire characters as in humans. I think they're universal themes.
They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth. It soweth here with toil and care, But the harvest-time of love is there.
No! If you die, I die! You asked me to spend forever with you, and I'm going to!
You're in my heart, you're in my soul. You'll be my breath, should I grow old.
Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!
Love that ends is the shadow of love; true love is without beginning or end.
Love, like truth, is the unassailable defense.
You proved to be worthy of my devotion. Of Death’s...love
And you've got a boy right there who looks at you like he would drink your bathwater if you'd ask him!
I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking suddenly in the midst of the shadow my arm encircled your waist. Neither night nor sleep could separate us.
Love is, and I hope it never isn't.
So long as my body lives, and yours -- we are one flesh," he whispered, "And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours. Claire -- I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you.
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Love is a power greater than death, just like the songs and stories told.
He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever.
What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.
Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.
In soaps, people come back from the dead all the time, to the point where death is just a bus stop.
What is better than to love and live with the loved? -- But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury.
Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.
There's something about death. It's like trying to understand our own mortality and immortality. That's why society is so into things like vampires, because they don't die. Well, why don't they die?
...once you fell in love with her, you loved her until the day you died.
It's been almost a century that Edward's been alone. Now he's found you. You can't see the changes we see, we who have been with him for so long. Do you think any of us want to look into his eyes for the next hundred years if he loses you?
Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.
