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

A strange, warm feeling swirled in my chest, and for a brief moment, when I looked at him, I saw...safety

It was a lame excuse, and I knew that wasn't the reason he was canceling. If he wanted to avoid me, I would have preferred he made up something about how he and the other guardians had to up Moroi security or practice top-secret ninja moves.

Having your own, um, cave at eighteen is pretty cool.

Dimitri: "Do not do that again."Rose: "Don't kiss me back then."- Dimitri Belikov & Rose Hathaway (Frostbite)

You're burned into my mind forever. There is nothing, nothing in this world that will ever change that.

Wait. You think I'm going to die? That's why you slept with me?