There's a guy chasing me!" I called as I headed out the door.

I also have a feeling your mother’s going to have a very ugly conversation with me." – Dimitri

Well...I'm on birth control" I was drinking the water again and choked on it. It took several moments of coughing before I could gasp out. "What?" "It takes a while for it to start working, so I figured I should be prepared, just in case." "Just in case," I repeated, still dumbfounded.

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!

Don't beat yourself up over what you could have or should have done. The past is gone. Move on to the future.

She snuggled back under the blanket with me, turned toward me so that she could rest her head on my chest. “I hear your heart,” she said. “Do you check every once in a while, just to make sure I’m not undead?

That's pretty weird—and when I say something's weird, you know it's serious.