L. J. Smith quotes:

I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

The Vampire Diaries is the story of Elena falling in love with Damon.

It means that there's only one love for everyone who exists. And when you meet that love, you know them. You know you were meant to be together, and nothing can keep you apart.

I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

Yeah, tell me I'm a bottle of single malt scotch, she thought. That's the way to my heart.

I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.

Tell Hugh, she whispered.Tell Hugh your freaking self! He's right here! And you're not going anywhere.

That was courage, Keller thought. Not doing something without being afraid, but doing something even though you were afraid.

Come on, it's an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom's homemade chicken pie?' She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It's apple pie and Mom's homemade chicken soup. But you didn't do badly, for a start.

Sheriff Mossberg was one of those people who never stop speaking untilthey are finished, so by this time he was saying: Do you understandthese rights?No, sir! Mi ne komprenas Dumbtalk!

Maybe it just means that love can be stronger than fear.

Good night, Gabriel.' [Kaitlyn] saidYou jerk[Gabriel] widened his eyes. 'Don't you want to stay? It's a big bed."

Klaus can't come between us anymore.-Tyler (before they start kissing and he accidentally bites Caroline)

Aphrodite just kept smiling.Because she was just doing what a goddess does-the same way that a tornado rips houses apart or a fire burns down a forest.

She let herself fall backwards into the music, and it was like falling in a dream, without fear.It was like being a raindrop falling into the ocean that had started you.

The Night World isn't a place. It's all around us. The creatures of Night World are beautiful and deadly and irresitable to humans. Your best friend could be one-so could your crush.

People die... Beauty fades... Love changes... And you will always be alone.

People die . . . so love them every day. Beauty fades . . . so look before it's gone. Love changes . . . but not the love you give. And if you love, you'll never be alone.

The image isn't reality. Even though we're used to thinking that way alot of the time. We show a kid a picture of a dog and say 'This is a doggie' - but it's not. It's just an image.

Each night I lie and dream about the one Who kissed me and awakened my desire I spent a single hour with him alone And since that hour, my days are layed with fire.

Days are precious, dinna lose them. Flo`ers will fade and so will ye... Come to me, ye fair young maidens. While young and fair ye still may be.

Oh, I'm starting to cry again. That's what happens when you think about life being fair. And I can't explain why it isn't . . . I don't think it's something anybody knows."

It cast an unholy glow all around him - which was entirely appropriate, because Julian was as seductive as mortal sin and as haughty as the devil."

Even if we're not together, we'll never really be apart.

I can't see anything" he said in a muffled voice, hand over his eyes. "I'm blind.

I don't need to kill goats to say things. I CAN talk.

I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.

I'm sorry Elena. I know that you want to help, but put yourself in her shoes, everything that happened tonight was to save you and that's OK because she loves you so much. But somehow she's always the one who gets hurt.

I'm as cruel as life. As cruel as love.

Bonnie who had never hurt a - a harmless thing for malice. Bonnie who was like a kitten making airy pounces at no prey at all. Bonnie with her hair that was called something strawberry but that looked simply as if it was on fire. Bonnie of the translucent skin with the delicate violet fjords and estuaries of veins all over her throat and inner arms. Bonnie who had lately taken to looking at him sideways with her large childlike eyes big and brown under lashes like stars...

Evil will never find peace. It may triumph, but it will never find peace

Ghouls weren't smart, but like the Energizer Bunny they kept going and going.

Interesting things happen in the dark . . . sometimes.

Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten

Right now everything looks so strange to me, as if I don't belong here. It's me that's out of place. And the worst thing is that I feel there's somewhere I do belong, but I just can't find it.

She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance.

Sky and sea, keep harm from me. Earth and fire, bring my desire.

There's nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it

When you're soulmates, it hits you like lightning, and you know that's the one person in the world you were meant to be with. You don't think you're soulmates; you just know it's your destiny whether you like it or not.

Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't?

You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.

You love someone because they sing a song only your heart can understand.

You only want everything you don't have.