RICHELLE MEAD

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

"I don't care if you say we can't be together. I don't care if you think I'm the most evil, unnatural creature walking on earth. You can think whatever you want, go whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless."

"He sighed and then focused his eyes right on me. It was like drowning, drowning in seas of green. There was nothing in the world except for those eyes."I want to kiss you, Rose," he said softly. "And I want you to want me too."

"I'll find you. There is no place in this world you can hide from me. I'm watching.Love, Dimitri"

"Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes."

"She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to his voice that made me turn around."What's that?" I asked."That I do still love you."With that one sentence, everything in the universe changed."