I needed to protect her from this - and from herself.

The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.

If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

But I couldn't help myself, couldn't help the way I felt as I recalled the bliss and rush of a vampire's bite.

Smiling, I cut across the quadrangle toward the commons. I felt better about life than I had in a very long time. We could do this, Lissa and me. We could do this together.

morois are born..but strigois are made..!

No one was normal, not really.

Everyone wanted what she couldn't have.

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

Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.

Mankind is flawed and to place absolute faith in it and it's understandings is flawed itself.

No one, in the end, made it out of this life alive.

I learned that night that love is never as ferocious as when you think it is going to leave you. We are not always allowed this knowledge, and so our love sometimes becomes retrospective.

If you hit, they're going to like you. If you don't hit, they're not going to like you.

I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.

The fact is - nothing comes, at least nothing good. All has to be fetched.

There seem to be two ways of generating interest from the reader: withholding information or by telling the reader on the first page exactly what's going to happen.

Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will.

One of the rummy things about Jeeves is that, unless you watch like a hawk, you very seldom see him come into a room.