01c. 1976 ADWhy on earth would you buy a car like this if you can't drive a stick? There are dozens of cars--new cars--that have automatic transmission. It'd be a million times easier." Adrian shrugged. "I like the color. It matches my living room.Richelle Mead / quote ↗
02c. 1976 ADIt was impossible to get the Dimitri and Tasha thing out of my head, but at least packing and getting ready made sure I didn't devote 100 percent of my brain power to him. More like 95 percent.Richelle Mead / quote ↗
03c. 1976 ADYou used nunchucks on a moose?"Wolfe got a haunted look in his eyes. "I used all sorts of things on that bastard.Richelle Mead / quote ↗
04c. 1976 ADSydney spent a lot of time on my bed these days.Unfortunately, it wasn't with me.Richelle Mead / quote ↗
06c. 1976 ADThat's ridiculous." Especially the part about Christian being manly.Richelle Mead / quote ↗
07c. 1976 ADWhen we were almost to the other campus, I felt the weird nausea hit me. I called a warning to Christian, just as a Strigoi grabbed him. But Christian was fast. Flames wreathed the Strigoi's head. He screamed and released Christian, trying frantically to put the flames out. The Strigoi never saw me coming with the stake. The whole thing took under a minute. Christian and I exchanged looks.Yeah. We were badasses.Richelle Mead / quote ↗
08c. 1976 ADEven now, despite Angeline's watchfulness, she'd occasionally oscillate between random topics, like how shepherd's pie wasn't a pie at all and why it was pointless for her to take class in typing when technology would eventually develop robot companions to do it for us.Richelle Mead / quote ↗
10c. 1976 ADOf course, now I had the problem of communicating what I needed. Marlen was still beating on the door, and Dimitri would be up in a couple of minutes. I glared at the human, hoping I looked terrifying. From his expression, I did. I attempted the caveman talk I had with Inna...only this time the message was a little harder. "Stick," I said in Russian. I had no clue what the word for stake was. I pointed at the silver ring I wore and made a slashing motion. "Stick. Where?" He stared at me in utter confusion and then asked, in perfect English, "Why are you talking like that?" "Oh for God's sake," I exclaimed. "Where is the vault?" "Vault?" "A place they keep weapons?" He continued staring. "Oh," he said. "That." Uneasily, he cast his eyes in the direction of the pounding.Richelle Mead / quote ↗
11c. 1976 ADShe accused me of wearing pants from the salvation army.""Rose, your pants ARE from the salvation army.""That's SO not the point!Richelle Mead / quote ↗
12c. 1976 ADIf not for me being stoned and clinging to a taco, it would have been terribly romantic.Richelle Mead / quote ↗
14c. 1976 ADI've heard that the soul often recognizes truth when it hears it, even if the mind does not.Richelle Mead / quote ↗
15c. 1976 ADI shot up,now as angry and frusterated as him.I had a feeling if i stayed, we'd both snap. In and undertone, I murmured,"this isnt over.i won't give up on you."" I've given up on you,"he said back,voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine has.Richelle Mead / quote ↗
16c. 1976 ADHow come when mortals want things, their only option is to make a deal with Hell and sell their soul? Why can’t they make deals with God in exchange for good behavior?"It was another of those rare moments when I’d surprised Carter. I waited for the glib answer I’d mentioned to Seth, something along the lines of goodness being its own reward. The angel considered for several seconds. "Humans make those deals all the time," he said finally. "They just don’t make them with God.""Then who are they making them with?" I exclaimed."Themselves.Richelle Mead / quote ↗
17c. 1976 ADGod might work on mysterious ways, but hell worked on efficient ones.Richelle Mead / quote ↗
18c. 1976 ADI had a standing agreement with god. I'd agree to believe in him, barely, so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.Richelle Mead / quote ↗
19c. 1976 ADSeth's quote from his book:"And if I only couldI'd make a deal with God and I'd get Him to swap our places"-"Running up that Hill" by Kate BushRichelle Mead / quote ↗
20c. 1976 ADAdrian tipped my face up toward his and kissed me. Like always, the world around me stopped moving. No, the world became Adrian, only Adrian. Kissing him was as mind-blowing as ever, full of that same passion and need I had never believed I’d feel. But today, there was even more to it. I no longer had any doubt about whether this was wrong or right. It was a culmination of a long journey . . . or maybe the beginning of one.I wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled him closer. I didn’t care that we were out in public. I didn’t care that he was Moroi. All that mattered was that he was Adrian, my Adrian. My match. My partner in crime, in the long battle I’d just signed on for to right the wrongs in the Alchemist and Moroi worlds. Maybe Marcus was right that I’d also signed myself up for disaster, but I didn’t care. In that moment, it seemed that as long as Adrian and I were together, there was no challenge too great for us.I don’t know how long we stood there kissing. Like I said, the world around me was gone. Time had stopped. I was awash in the feel of Adrian’s body against mine, in his scent, and in the taste of his lips. That was all that mattered right now.Richelle Mead / quote ↗
21c. 1976 ADYou can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.Richelle Mead / quote ↗
22c. 1976 ADSometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream.Richelle Mead / quote ↗
23c. 1976 ADIf I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.Richelle Mead / quote ↗
24c. 1976 ADWell, that depends, I suppose. I heard someone once say that men dance the same way they have sex. So, if you want everyone here to think you're the kind of guy who just sits around and—" He stood up. "Let's dance.Richelle Mead / quote ↗
