It matters to me. That's what you don't get. You can't understand. You can't understand what it's like knowing what I did. That whole time being Strigoi...It's like a dream now, but it's one I remember clearly. There can be no forgiveness for me. And what happened with you? I remember that most of all. Everything I did. Everything I wanted to do.

Is Hopper celebrating with you?” “Hopper? Why would—” My mouth snapped shut for a few moments. “Oh. I, uh, kind of forgot about him.

Honor, I thought. For real: the guardians should have taught it. Because I hadn't learned it.

She is mine, and I am hers.

It had to be one of the weirdest things in the universe that Lissa had never come close to suspecting my feelings for Dimitri but that Adrian had figured it out.

I'm telling you, I wanted to. But I was trapped. You of all people should know what it's like being caught between groups

He anxiously touched his hair. "I think my hair gel's frozen.