I felt my heart breaking all over again. Why? Why had this happened to us? Why was the universe so cruel?
It occurred to me that I was standing face to face with the hero of a love story nearly as dramatic as my own.
He thought there was no hope for him. Me? I can’t imagine a world without hope.
It’s easy to want peace and love in hypothetical situations – then reality sets in, and sometimes we have to do what’s ugly.
Love doesn’t stop people from betraying each other.
I, had an excellent instructor. One that you currently have locked up. If you want to talk about skills going to waste, then go look in your own jail.
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.
I hadn’t gotten far when I ran into Mason. Good God. Men everywhere.
How come all the harmless people were so lame? Maybe that was the definition of safe.
What are you? An after school special?
If you try to turn me against Lissa one more time the stories are going to be about you bleeding because I’ll have ripped your throat out!
Dimitri should have been here with me. That’s how it was supposed to have been.
If I had learned anything in my life about love, it was that they were tenous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential-but not at the cost of risking your life.
For a moment, staring down and realizing what I’d just done, I wanted to throw myself in after him, because surely there was no way I could go on living now.
I lost track of day and night too. My time was divided into Dimitri and not-Dimitri. He was my world. When he wasn’t there, the moments were agony.
Do what? Come up with a clever pun referencing Jerome’s demonic status? The truth is, I usually keep a stash of them on hand and –.
Sleep with Seth Mortensen? Good grief. It was the most preposterous thing I’d ever heard. It was appalling. If I absorbed his life force, there was no telling how long it’d be until his next book came out.
There was a lot of apologizing going on, but I realized that was how it was with people you cared about. You forgave each other and moved on.
It had to be one of the weirdest things in the universe that Lissa had never come close to suspecting my feelings for Dimitri but that Adrian had figured it out.
Because there is no greater evil than ignorance and the destruction of genius. Ignorance has been responsible for more death, more bigotry, and more sin than any other force. It is the destroyer of mankind.