That's the great thing about being a writer. You dream up amazing questions... and then dream up even more amazing answers.

I found the candles—atrocious air freshening ones that smelled like fake pine.

I'd never expected my first time to be in a cabin in the woods, but I realized the place didn't matter. The person did. With someone you loved, you could be anywhere, and it would be incredible. Being in the most luxurious bed in the world wouldn't matter if you were with someone you didn't love.

Is he... is Dimitri a Strigoi?" Mason hesitated only a moment, like he was afraid to answer me, and then—he nodded. My heart shattered. My world shattered.

if you'd teach me to swear in russian, i might have a new appreciation for it

Lissa knelt down, compassion on her face. I wasn't surprised, since she'd always had a thing for animals. She'd lectured me for days after I'd instigated the infamous hamster-and-hermit-crab fight. I'd viewed the fight as a testing of worthy opponents. She'd seen it as animal cruelty.

...hot pink with a star done in rainbow rhinestones on the front. It was god-awful. I bought it.