Throughout history, people with new ideas – who think differently and try to change things – have always been called troublemakers.
I had a standing arrangement with God: I’d agree to believe in him – barely – so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.
Look, don’t get me wrong. I worship the ground this guy walks on. I’m excited to meet him tonight. I’m dying to meet him tonight. If he wanted to carry me off and make me his love slave, I’d do it, so long as I got advance copies of his books.
I decided the Alchemists needed an entire department devoted to handling Adrian Ivashkov.
The greatest changes in history have come when people were able to shake off what others told them to do.
I’ve seen all I need to. I’m going to go drink now in a futile effort to wipe away the memory of this debacle.
Wanting and needing are two different things.
Rose and Dimitri moved almost as one entity, like a matched pair of wolfes or lions, both wary and deadly as they studied their surroundings, taking no detail or person for granted.
Everything’s about my personal entertainment. The world is my stage. Keep it up- you’re becoming a star performer in the show.
Adrian, I’m on a date. Why are you here? On my car?
Don’t be sorry you loved him. That’s part of you, part you have to let go...
I thought I’d finally get to relax with Dimitri.
Anyone who takes a hit for Adrian Ivashkov deserves some credit.
Don’t get caught up in fashion games. These kids probably think we’re old, nark conformists or something, but really, they’re just conforming in their own ways. They’re conforming to nonconformity.
Right. As opposed to your cradle-robbing mentor. I don’t really see you making much progress with him.
Seth moved behind me, his presence steady and reassuring. Waiting to catch me, even though I refused to fall just yet.
That’s what humanity is: a series of successes and failures, a testing of one’s own nature and aptitude. Neither the body nor the soul can sustain such a state. Eventually it consumes a person.
Not me. Give me honesty anytime.
Being charming is my hobby.
My heart shattered. My world shattered.