And than suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster.

Adrian looked away from me and down to where my hand covered his. I blushed and pulled away. “Sorry” I’d probably freaked him out

Some rules are bigger than the universe.

Love is . . .” An old memory with Adrian came back to me, and some of the turbulent emotion I always carried within me these days welled up in my chest. It was stupid, feeling so lovesick when he’d been gone less than a day, but I couldn’t get him or the ways he described love out of my head. “. . . a flame in the dark. A breath of warmth on a winter’s night. A star that guides you home.

You've asked me out tons of times." "Not really. I've made inappropriate suggestions and frequently pushed for nudity. But I've never asked you out on a real date.

You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories.

She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause.... "That I do still love you.