Oh my God," he said. "A kind word from Rose Hathaway. I can die a happy man.

It was something of a mystery how a couple of teenage girls had managed to escape detection for two years, especially when one of them was a privileged Moroi princess and the other a delinquent dhampir with a disciplinary file so long that it broke school records.

She studied him for a few more seconds. “You look too pretty to be useful.” I gasped in spite of myself. Adrian chuckled and shook her hand. “Truer words were never spoken,” he said.

You're my flame in the dark. We chase away the shadows around each other.

And after a while...I mean how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that...well, some people have to die.

Moroi shied from the sunlight but as I watched Sydney, I knew without a doubt that humans had been made for the sun.

She stared at me with concern a few moments longer and then relaxed a little. "Okay. But if you need anything—" "I know, I know. Call on the Love Phone.