Dont worry, Roza, I'm not afraid. I'll take whatever heat they give me over being with you. It's worth it.

Just because things don't work out, it doesn't mean there aren't other people you can't love. Love is too big a thing for you to go without it in life.

But what I found most interesting was that Aaron had apparently found a way to pass the time without her. Beside him, holding his hand, was a Moroi girl who looked about eleven but had to be older, unless he'd become a pedophile during our absence.

I can pick a lock. How do you think I got into my parents' liquor cabinet in middle school?

How we love others is affected by how we love ourselves, and for the first time in a long time, I was whole.

No," he said, voice thick and husky. His fingers dug into the chair's arms. "You'd better not get too close." I stopped, laughing softly. "You don't strike me as the assaulting type, Mortensen." "Yeah, well, there's a first time for everything.

Dmitri was at a total loss. It was a common reaction for people when I agreed to do something reasonable.