I'll always choose you." Yes that was the word. "Every single lifetime, I'll choose you. Just as you have always chosen me. Forever.

Yeah,there was a whole chapter on you in my eight grade History of Angels textbook," Miles said. Arriane clapped. "And they told me that book was banned!

Well, Luce, my dear, you may have gone to boarding school parties, but you've never seen a throw-down like reform school kids do it.

And she knew without opening her eyes that it was Daniel. No other body in the universe fit hers so well.

And the way he looked at her was so intense, his big green eyes probing into her, like he approved of everything she held inside.

As far as possible, Arianne realized, each soul had to be content alone before plunging into love, because one never knew when the other would move out of that love. It was the greatest paradox: Souls need each other, but they also need to not need each other.

Daniel Grigori!" Arriane hooted through her hands. "No!" Daniel hooted back without missing a beat.