You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?
I take his hand, holding on tightly, preparing for the cameras, and dreading the moment when I will finally have to let go.
I wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled him closer. I didn’t care that we were out in public. I didn’t care that he was Moroi. All that mattered was that he was Adrian, my Adrian. My match. My partner in crime.
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.
You can’t force love, I realized. It’s there or it isn’t. If it’s not there, you’ve got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you’ve got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.
Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.
Aubrey, crouching on a nearby counter, watched me with squinty eyes, apparently pondering why anyone would willingly immerse themselves in water ever, let alone for extended periods of time.
Vampires. Honestly, they’re like children sometimes.
I looked him in the eye. “I will always love you.” Then I plunged the stake into his chest.
If not for me being stoned and clinging to a taco, it would have been terribly romantic.
If I let myself love you, I won’t throw myself in front of her. I’ll throw myself in front of you.
He’s like a drug for you, Bella.
There’s no good story without romance.
I was a vampire, and she had the sweetest blood I’d smelled in eighty years.
How could you fall in love with a three inch worm?
I honestly have no idea how to live without you.
And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.
I’d rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I’d rather die loving Alex than live without him.
He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.
This is what I want. This is the only thing I’ve ever wanted. Everything else – every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss – has meant nothing.