Just friends, just friends. Standing there in the bookstore, watching Seth walk away, I half wondered how anyone could still use that line. But I knew why, of course. It was used because people still believed it. Or at least they wanted to.
Hey Mason, wipe that drool off you face. If you’re going to think about me naked, do it on your own time. -Rose to Mason.
We can take her. Besides, he deserves someone who doesn’t shop at Gap Kids. -Rose to Lissa on Mia and Aaron.
What do you mean it wasn’t anything? Didn’t the earth move or the planets align or something? -Rose to Lissa on sleeping with Aaron.
You are so beautiful, it hurts me sometimes. -Dimitri to Rose.
Culinary science? You elected culinary science? That’s the most brainless class ever. -Rose to Christian.
Yeah according to my- Hey, are you staring at my chest? -Rose to Adrian.
Because it’s simple, I love you, and I don’t want to keep pretending like I don’t. -Rose to Dimitri.
Study’s overrated. Just find someone smart to copy off. -Adrian to Lissa.
Rose, do you think I’d do anything that would hurt you.- Dimitri to Rose.
The love we’d shared always burned within me, no matter how often I told myself to move on, no matter how much the world did think I’d moved on.
While I’m fine with you two dating and being happy, please try not to break his heart too much when the time comes.
The Guardians wouldn’t abandon the last Dragomir. And I wouldn’t have abandoned Lissa even if there were a million Dragomirs.
Turning away, I stared at the long road winding off ahead of me. I sighed. This trip might take awhile. “Then start walking, Rose,” I muttered to myself. I set off, off to kill the man I loved.
Dimitri Belikov had arrived.
My name’s Jet Steele.
Eddie became about one percent less tense.
Weirdly, an image of Adrian’s Love painting came back to me. I thought of the jagged red streak, slashing through the blackness, ripping it apart. Staring at Jill and her inconsolable pain, I suddenly understood his art a little bit better.
How we love others is affected by how we love ourselves, and for the first time in a long time, I was whole.
Propriety’s never been Adrian’s strong suit.