I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me.

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.

All we can go on is what we think, how we see the world. If you can't trust your own mind what can you trust?

Do you love him?" There were only a few people in the world who could ask me such insanely personal questions without getting punched. Dimitri was one of them.

Yeah, I was at the Masquerade of the Damned.

Rose once told me about this poem she’d read. There was this line, ‘If your eyes weren’t open, you wouldn’t know the difference between dreaming and waking.’ You know what I’m afraid of? That someday, even with my eyes open, I still won’t know.

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