Hope implies that you think you have a chance at something.
I pulled out box after box, setting them haphazardly around the room. My organization lacked something – like, say, organization...
You and I aren’t friends either.
You two are a match made in heaven. Or somewhere.
For once, you’re going to hear something that doesn’t fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason.
But what I found most interesting was that Aaron had apparently found a way to pass the time without her. Beside him, holding his hand, was a Moroi girl who looked about eleven but had to be older, unless he’d become a pedophile during our absence.
It doesn’t matter. Take Eddie’s blood. Take Belikov’s blood. Take your own for all I care. But If she doesn’t want to give hers, then that’s all there is to it. She said no. This conversation is done.
I find prostitutes vastly important.
Slushes. Do you know how much I love those? Cherry, especially.
I felt the need to clarify we were there for the self defense class, in case he also taught about dog breeding or riding the high seas.
Right. Because there’s no bigger sign of commitment than a Halloween dance.
Eddie was intensely dedicated too. Adrian sometimes called him mini-Dimitri.
Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn’t I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework?
Never thought I’d see the day when you’d throw your arms around a vam – someone like me.
Adrian looked away from me and down to where my hand covered his. I blushed and pulled away. “Sorry” I’d probably freaked him out.
I saw something in his pretty green eyes that I had never seen before: Anger. They were like emerald fire.
I’m telling you, I wanted to. But I was trapped. You of all people should know what it’s like being caught between groups.
The question was which spell did I make? Which did I have time to make? The answer was eerily simple. I had time to make all of them.
Isn’t it obvious, Sage? No, of course it isn’t. I did it so I’d have a reason to be around you – one I knew you couldn’t refuse.
But perhaps the best part of all was that I, Sydney Katherine Sage, guilty of constantly analyzing the world around me, well, I stopped thinking.