As much as you long for it, it longs for you more. Take one step toward the Big Person, and it will take a hundred steps toward you.

— Christopher Pike

Before I begin, may I ask how old you are?"" You may ask."" How old are you?"" It's none of your business

— Christopher Pike

But centuries of time have not made me insensitive

— Christopher Pike

But if you wish, you can imagine that the Shadow does wait for your return and that it does remember everything that has gone before and that it doesn’t let you accept yourself as perfect until you let it. There is truth in that. That is why a child usually cries as soon as it’s born. With its first breath, the Shadow returns.

— Christopher Pike

Darkness approaches from outside. I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.

— Christopher Pike

Does love survive? Yes, I thought, somewhere in some place it is saved and made sacred.

— Christopher Pike

Even from high above, I could feel Amanda's hate. Or perhaps it was another dimension of my Shadow, my own hate for her closing in on me. Despite all I had learned and seen, I wished to God someone would choke her to death, so I could get hold of her and choke her some more.

— Christopher Pike

For feeling, not events, is to me the essence of history.

— Christopher Pike

He cries. 'Please! I don't want to die.' I lean over. My hair smothers him.' Then you should never have been born,' I say.

— Christopher Pike

I am a vampire, and that is the truth.

— Christopher Pike