Wait. You think I'm going to die? That's why you slept with me?

Ever since Dimitri came back...no, scratch that. Ever since you became obsessed with changing him, you've been torn over me. No matter what's happened between us, you've never really given yourself over to our relationship. I wanted to believe what you told me. I thought you were ready...but you weren't.

This isn't a Christmas special! This is my life. In the real world, miracles and goodness just don't happen.

Conversation was irrelevant. Only pie mattered.

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

The answer came to me before I'd even finished asking myself the question. I couldn't be Mason's girlfriend because when I imagined someone holding me and whispering dirty things in my ear, he had a Russian accent.

But I couldn't help myself, couldn't help the way I felt as I recalled the bliss and rush of a vampire's bite.