Propriety's never been Adrian's strong suit.

A year. We'd known each other only a year, but we'd lived a lifetime in it.

Okay, but if you try to get me to pray with you, I walk.

Look, don’t get me wrong. I worship the ground this guy walks on. I’m excited to meet him tonight. I’m dying to meet him tonight. If he wanted to carry me off and make me his love slave, I’d do it, so long as I got advance copies of his books.

I've heard that the soul often recognizes truth when it hears it, even if the mind does not.

Guilt was its own prison.

I decided the Alchemists needed an entire department devoted to handling Adrian Ivashkov.