I like you being the sinner you are. -Adrian Ivashkov

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

Rose, nothing in this world could make me hate you." "Not even trying to bring my ex-boyfriend back from the dead?

I saw something in his pretty green eyes that I had never seen before: Anger. They were like emerald fire

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

Mark glanced at his watch and sighed. "Look, I have to go, but I'm serious, Rose. Stay here. Stay out of trouble. Fight Strigoi if they come to you, but don't go seeking them blindly. And definitely leave the ghosts alone. " It was a lot of advice to get in a grocery store, a lot of advice I wasn't sure I could follow.

Half condemn him and write him off as useless like him dad. The other half just shrug and indulge him and say, ‘Well, that’s Adrian.