Quotes from Christopher Pike

And there they were being so responsible, practicing safe sex and all. She'd been a fool to believe all that hype, she thought. The only hundred percent safe sex was between Barbie and Ken, and she'd heard rumors that they weren't doing it anymore.

Yet I have to wonder if I have lost the song because I have become the song. If I have lost my Lord because I do indeed desire to be what I will become. A lover who hates, a saint who sins, and an angel who kills.

I do not want to die - Then you should not have been born (Sita) Last Vampire

If there really are such creatures in here, it would be the discovery of a lifetime.' 'If there really are such creatures in here,' Sally countered, 'your lifetime might be very short.

Trust is like glass. You think you can see through it, that you know what's on the other side of it. You pretend you know your partner and that he knows you. But it's all an illusion. One day you bump against it and it cracks and you cut yourself and you bleed.

In the heart are three emotions—I felt them then: love, fear, and hatred. I could see that an individual could only have one of the three at a time.

Any odds are good odds for the damned

It's like a haunted house we can't leave,' Neil said. A haunted house we're afraid to leave, Tony thought.

It was as if he weren't human anymore, merely a wraith sent from the netherworld to haunt humanity.

Most people would probably call me a ghost. I am, after all, dead. But I don't think of myself that way. It wasn't so long ago that I was alive, you see. I was only eighteen. I had my whole life in front of me. Now I suppose you could say I have all of eternity before me. I'm not sure exactly what that means yet. I'm told everything's going to be fine. But I have to wonder what I would have done with my life, who I might have been. That's what saddens me most about dying--that I'll never know.

Sally felt herself getting in the mood to tell some really great lies. It was a special feeling of power.

Where ever I am is paradise because I'm there. I am Joy itself.

I had to put on my memory, however, and I didn't know that I was both my own God and own devil.

You're in love with your image of Linda. Mr. Green is in love with his image of Jesus. Both of your images have little to do with reality. Both of you are making yourselves miserable.' 'That's not fair, comparing me to him. You don't see me hammering nails in people.' 'You prefer to hammer them through your own hands.

The late hour is such a friend; it has been for so many years.

On the other hand, if love did not mature it could lead to bondage, to jealousy. If you loved someone, but felt possessive of them, you could end up treating them like an object that belonged to you. Just as bad, with your children, if you showered them with too much love, and never disciplined them, they would grow up weak and spoiled. At times, love had to be tough, or it could end up wrecking those dearest to you.

Giving up our values in the name of security is to lose the battle in advance

I have faith. It doesn't matter what I decide.

One does not beg for a glass of water from the devil.

Staring down at my trembling hands, I wonder many things.

In the heart are three emotions—I felt them then: love, fear, and hatred. I could see that an individual could only have one of the three at a time. When you were in love you knew no fear or hatred. When you were fearful, there was no possibility of love or hate. And when there was hate, there was only hate.

La colpa è una cosa perfida: una volta che ti penetra dentro è difficile liberarsene.

That's the beauty of meeting in the middle of the story. We already know each other.

I don't think I'm going to be bored here