Yet, it had been Dimitri’s gentleness and thoughtfulness mixed with that deadliness that made him so wonderful. The same hands that wielded stakes with such precision would carefully brush the hair out of my face....

Do you think I’m pretty?I think you’re beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.

Love fades. Mine has.

My muscles informed me they did not want to go through any more exercise today. So I suggest that maybe he should let me off this time. He laughed, and I’m pretty sure it was...

Well, that depends, I suppose. I heard someone once say that men dance the same way they have sex. So, if you want everyone here to think you’re the kind of guy who just sits...

Our lips met hungrily, and his clever artistic hands wrapped around my hips. A sudden buzz from my regular cell phone startled me from the kissing.”Don’t,” said Adrian, his eyes ablaze and breathing ragged.”What if...

My hands tightened on her, and I again tried to memorize every part of this moment. There was such perfection in the way our bodies were wrapped together. It didn’t seem possible that outside the...

Everyone wanted what she couldn’t have.

You’re so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.

Sweat isn’t a bad thing,” he said, leaning his head against the wall thoughtfully. “Some of the best things in life happen while your sweating. Yeah, if you get too much of it and it...

It’s kind of hard to outlive your past

You know what we need?” “A new plan?” asked Lissa. “A miracle?” asked Eddie.I paused and glared at them both before responding. Since when had they become the comedians here? “No.

A gun I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought. I’d spent my life focusing on hand to hand combat, learning to dodge fangs and powerful hands that...

Find your pacifier and shut the hell up!

I didn’t care about anything except her and the way touching her drove me wild, even as her calm and steady presence soothed the storms that raged within me.

Keep it. I think I’ve got something else to help center my life.

Because it’s our duty to God to protect the rest of humanity from evil creatures of the night.

He caught hold of my hand. “Sydney, please don’t do this,” he begged. “No matter how confident you feel, no matter how careful you are, things will spiral out of control.” “They already have,” I...

Sage?” Adrian lightly touched my arm, and I jumped at the feel of his fingertips against my skin. “You okay?””I don’t know,” I said softly. “I just thought of something crazy.””Welcome to my world.

And you look cute with hypothermia. I hope to God you can get a real coat while you’re here.

You forget: I have an addictive personality. I’m addicted to you. Somehow I think you could do all sorts of bad things to me, and I’d still come back to you. Just keep things honest,...

You’re better than this, Adrian. Whatever the reason, you’re better than it. Don’t trick yourself into thinking you’re weaker than you are

Darling” she said with a small laugh “Love doesn’t have anything to do with this.” “It has very thing to do with it!” I exclaimed.

I loved you and you destroyed me. You took my heart and ripped it up. You might as well have staked me.

She was right about something else too,” Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to his voice that made me turn around.”What’s that?” I asked.”That...

I wanted him. I arched my back, fully aware of how vulnerable that made me and that I was giving him an invitation. He accepted it and laid me back against the table, bringing his...

Oh… Adrian, I’ve got one more favor to ask you. A big one.” “Fondue?” he asked hopefully.

Sorry,ʺ she said, her face shining with joy when she saw me. ʺShould have put a sock on the door. Didnʹt realize things were getting hot and heavy.ʺʺNo avoiding it,ʺ I said lightly, clasping Dimitriʹs...

I’m sure it is,” she replied. Her expression turned fierce, making her look far different from the scattered teacher I knew. “But listen to me when I say this. You are exceptional, taleneted, and brilliant...

Love is a flame in the dark. A breath of warmth on a winter’s night. A star that guides you home.

I’d seen weirder things than a haunted shoe, but not many.

After the bitching I’d done to Abe about going to remote, crappy places, I should have been excited about the prospect of going to Sin City.

We’re the goddamned hottest vampire hunters ever

You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can.

You should dress her better, you know.” “I’m not interested in putting clothes on her,” Adrian called as he steered me away. “Watch it,” I warned through gritted teeth, “or you might be the one...

Everything Iʹd been taught about eluding someone came rushing back to my head. What I wanted to do more than anything was look around and see if I had a follower, but that would have...

I tried to be a better person for her– but it was to impress her, to get her to want me. But when I’m around you, I want to be better because… well, because it...

Any life worth living is going to have risks

Your boyfriend and Micah will both be speechless.” I unfastened my seatbelt. “That’s the third time I’ve heard ‘your boyfriend.’ What’s going on about that? Why won’t anyone say Brayden’s name?” Neither of them answered...

And that’s the thing, I think… the real reason I’m not that weirded out by you two. It goes against all sound logic, but somehow, you two together… it just works.

Metaphors. This was the cost of making out with an artist.

Besides, I could hardly complain to the administration that I was being forced to learn magic.

I’d never felt so helpless – so hopeless – in my life as I did there. To be completely under someone’s power, with no one to turn to for help, to make someone feel like...

This was the last thing I expected. You destroy my life and then feed me some inspiratonal philosophy.

Sitting beside Abe was Adrian Ivashkov–my more-or-less boyfriend. Adrian was a royal Moroi–and another spirit user like Lissa. He’d been crazy about me (and often just crazy) ever since we first met

And he has so much, Sydney. So much feeling. He feels everything so strongly— love, grief, anger. His emotions are up and down, all over the place.

I’m still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy ever will.” -Adrian-

I know I’m not supposed to say this, but I love you.

Abe held my gaze a bit longer and then broke into an easy smile. ʺOf course, of course. This is a family gathering. A celebration. And look: hereʹs our newest member.ʺ Dimitri had joined us...

Of course, now I had the problem of communicating what I needed. Marlen was still beating on the door, and Dimitri would be up in a couple of minutes. I glared at the human, hoping...