Anyone who takes a hit for Adrian Ivashkov deserves some credit.

You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki

The greatest changes in history have come when people were able to shake off what others told them to do.

We try to do what's right, or rather what other say is right. But sometimes, when that goes against who we are...you have to choose.

He shouldn't have said that," repeated Adrian, eerily serious. He leaned his face toward mine. "I don't care if he's not the emotional type or the complimentary type or what. No one can look at you in this dress, in all that fire and gold, and start talking about anachronisms. If I were him, I would have said, 'You are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen walking this earth.

The love we'd shared always burned within me, no matter how often I told myself to move on, no matter how much the world did think I'd moved on.