You and I are going to get along just fine.

Somehow, Sydney had an internal clock that told her when time was up. I think it was part of her inherent ability to keep track of a hundred things at once. Not me. In these...

He’s been out for a while,” she said. “You ready to take a break?”Hopper could exist in this living form or be transformed into a small statue, which helped avoid uncomfortable questions when people came...

Oh. I, uh, kind of forgot about him.

I can’t waste time quibbling over trivial things like pepperoni and mushrooms. If you’d gone to my school in Devonshire, you’d understand. For one of my sophomore classes, they left us alone on the moors...

Damn, you have no idea what I have been through today.””Actually I have a pretty good idea.

I clung to that spark of hope,nurturing it into a small flame thatchased some of the shadows in my heartaway.

I need it! I need it! It’s a royal heirloom!””Adrian?””What are you doing here?””Looking for you. Come on, we need to go. I’ll drive you home.””No, I can’t. Not until we get it. He stole...

Not everything about me is cute.””That’s true, some things are cute. The rest are sexy. Astonishing, agonizingly sexy. It’s a wonder I can get anything done at all, when all I ever think about is...

She sat up, cheeks flushed and golden hair tousled. She was so beautiful that it made my soul ache. I always wished desperately that I could paint her in these moments and immortalize that look...

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.

I had never thought I could love another person this much. I also never thought I’d live in such fear of losing another person. Was this how everyone in love felt? Did they all cling...

Did Belikov bend the rules of time and space to get here so fast? He can do that, right?

She continue kissing me with that ferocity, so much so that her lips lightly scraped my teeth. It was only a few drops, but as the sweet metallic taste of her blood touched my tongue,...

No matter how long or how difficult, we will undo whatever that Moroi boy has done to you.”I managed a wavering smile, tasting blood in my mouth. “You sure about that, Dad? Because he’s done...

An image of Sydney’s face appeared in my mind’s eye, calm and lovely.I believe in you.My anxiety faded.I took a deep breath and met the gazes of all those watching me in the room.Who was...

And you doing scientific and magical calculations. We’re thinking, cerebral beings one minute . . . and the next, completely given over to physical acts of passion. How do we do that? Back and forth,...

Relax, having kids is years away. But can you imagine? Your brains, my charm, our collective good looks… then add in the usual physical abilities dhampirs get. It’s really not even fair to everyone else.

Well—actually, I am. And I’m pretty sure there are certain things we have to do before you need to be reading that.

We will undo whatever that Moroi boy has done to you.””You sure about that, Dad? Because he’s done everything to me.

You might not believe this, but there is no one like her at this school.””Oh I believe it,” I said, thinking back to the time Angeline had forgotten her locker’s combination and tried to get...

Moroi shied from the sunlight but as I watched Sydney, I knew without a doubt that humans had been made for the sun.

You want to be an alchemist so badly? Don’t wait to react to the immediate problem.Plan ahead. Look at the big picture and you won’t ever have to deal with that problem.Better to save yourself...

Sydney spent a lot of time on my bed these days.Unfortunately, it wasn’t with me.

Escape plan number seventeen,” I told her. “Run away and open a juice stand in Fresno.””Why Fresno?””Sounds like the kind of place people drink a lot of juice.

Well…I’m on birth control”I was drinking the water again and choked on it. It took several moments of coughing before I could gasp out. “What?””It takes a while for it to start working, so I...

Even now, despite Angeline’s watchfulness, she’d occasionally oscillate between random topics, like how shepherd’s pie wasn’t a pie at all and why it was pointless for her to take class in typing when technology would...

My boyfriend was insanely sexy, vampire or not, and I couldn’t keep my hands off him.

… imperfection would get me farther than perfection.

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...

I’m guessing whatever ‘ways’ you have in mind aren’t Jill-appropriate either.” “Put your books away and I’ll show you.