Rose you can't go." This time the sadness in Lissa's voice was mirrored though the bond, flooding into me. "It's not that Dimitri didn't ask to see you. He asked specifically not to see you.

The best jury of your peers that you’ll ever find is…well, you. Only you know what you’re capable of and what you want to be.

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

You did not just say that. I have a feeling we're on the verge of hugging and coming up with cute nicknames for each other.

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.

How we love others is affected by how we love ourselves, and for the first time in a long time, I was whole.

This isn’t a game. We don’t want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you’ve spent most of your time here being mediocre.