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Because it gives him and excuse to be around her--without making it look like he gave in first. That way, he can still seem manly."

"That's ridiculous." Especially the part about Christian being manly.

"Guys do ridiculous things for love.


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Where are you guys getting all of this?" I asked. "What does it matter if I - oh come on."
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"Are you offering?”
"From what I've heard, there ...
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RICHELLE MEAD Oh, so that's why you're up here. For a pity party."

"This isn't a joke. I'm serious." I ...
RICHELLE MEAD I like him."

"Like or like?

"Oh, there's a difference?
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RICHELLE MEAD I didn't like having reasonable arguments thrown at me.
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RICHELLE MEAD I'm really not good with impulse control.
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RICHELLE MEAD I get in that kind of situation all the time, Comrade. It's not a big deal." Anger replaced my fear....
RICHELLE MEAD Taking a deep breathe, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life.
I walked away.
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"Like..." I hesitated. ...
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RICHELLE MEAD When I saw you fall..."
"You thought, 'Wow, she's a loser.
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Rose: "Wild and dis...
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RICHELLE MEAD I nearly dropped the plate I held. "You've asked me out tons of times."

"Not really. I've...
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RICHELLE MEAD Piece of Heaven?"

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RICHELLE MEAD Do you think I'm pretty?
I think you're beautiful
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You are so beautiful, it...
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RICHELLE MEAD What's up?" I asked.

You tell me," he said. "You were the one about ready to start making...
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“The usual, old man,” I replied cheerily. “Danger, ins...
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"That's not true...
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"Oh I b...
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"So?"<...
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RICHELLE MEAD You forgot another lesson: Never turn your back until you know your enemy
is dead. Looks like w...
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RICHELLE MEAD You know what we need?"

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"A miracle?" asked Eddie....
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RICHELLE MEAD He's hot like, the kind of hot that makes you stop walking on the street and get hit by traffic.
RICHELLE MEAD You fixed yourself. You didn’t need me.”

“No, Sydney.” My voice was ragged. “I ...
RICHELLE MEAD It’s Adrian Ivashkov logic. Don’t try to understand it. Just roll with it.
RICHELLE MEAD No matter how long or how difficult, we will undo whatever that Moroi boy has done to you."
RICHELLE MEAD Centrum permanebit.
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RICHELLE MEAD You're better than this. Better than whatever it is you're going to do now.
RICHELLE MEAD You see something you like?
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slowly. “Just the color?”
...
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He brought his face toward mine. “You are to me.”...
RICHELLE MEAD I'll just love you whether you want me to or not.
RICHELLE MEAD God might work on mysterious ways, but hell worked on efficient ones.
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RICHELLE MEAD Je t'aime Roza...je serais là pour toi. Je ne laisserais jamais rien t'arriver.
Et je ne laiss...
RICHELLE MEAD What were good and evil, really, but stupid categories? Stupid categories
that restricted peopl...
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"Yes, Sage" he said patiently. "We use it all t...
RICHELLE MEAD But what are loyalty and caring really worth?"
"To me? Everything.
RICHELLE MEAD I want her to be happy. It's worth sacrificing myself." -Eddie
RICHELLE MEAD He's been out for a while," she said. "You ready to take a break?"
Hopper could exist in this l...
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RICHELLE MEAD She felt so much emotionally, she would say, that a physical outlet - physical pain - was the only w...
RICHELLE MEAD Well...I'm on birth control"

I was drinking the water again and choked on it. It took sev...
RICHELLE MEAD I should go," I said thickly. "Let me know when you want to start practice again. And thanks for...t...
RICHELLE MEAD Call me crazy for asking this, but, um, are Lissa and I going with you?"
"No"
"No?"
"...
RICHELLE MEAD Guardian Belikov is the princess's guardian now," said Kirova, "Her sanctioned guardian."
RICHELLE MEAD You might be surrounded by clouds, but you'll be like sunshine to me.
RICHELLE MEAD You look confused," said Adrian.
I shook my head and sighed. "I think I'm just overthinking thi...
RICHELLE MEAD They’re waiting for you. Go on in.” Adrian leaned close to Keith’s ear and spoke in an ominous...
RICHELLE MEAD Relax, having kids is years away. But can you imagine? Your brains, my charm, our collective good lo...
RICHELLE MEAD I loved you!" he yelled. He jumped up out of his chair so quickly I never saw it coming. "I loved yo...
RICHELLE MEAD Who is he?"
"An idiot, said Adrian. "Makes me look like an upstanding member of society.
RICHELLE MEAD Yeah? Can you draw a skeleton riding a motorcycle with flames coming out of it? And I want a pirate ...
RICHELLE MEAD You, know I'm the Queen's favorite great nephew, Well, yeah I'm her only great nephew, but that's no...
RICHELLE MEAD Don't worry, little dhampir. You might be surrounded by clouds, but you'll always be like sunshine t...
RICHELLE MEAD You've asked me out tons of times."
"Not really. I've made inappropriate suggestions and freque...
RICHELLE MEAD I know how devastated you must be to miss me, but leave a message, and I'll try to ease your agony
RICHELLE MEAD That means nothing," said Abe with a shrug. I had a feeling that if I stood and suddenly confessed t...
RICHELLE MEAD Hello," I said stiffly.
His smile split into a full grin."So nice to see you again."
"Alwa...
RICHELLE MEAD You think that I'm so manipulative and scheming, Miss Sage? It's all for them. For my loved ones fir...
RICHELLE MEAD He smiled willingly. "Well, I always aim to help others in need."
"Yeah," a new voice suddenly ...
RICHELLE MEAD I expected Abe to yell for everyone to shut up or something like that. Of course, Nathan had been tr...
RICHELLE MEAD So, I want to try to spend more time with Dad."
Abe glanced at Rose."You see that?" He said. "N...
RICHELLE MEAD Who are these people?" my mother asked.
"Guess," replied Abe flatly. "Who would be foolish enou...
RICHELLE MEAD Well, well, well," I said. "If it isn't the people responsible for unleashing Rose Hathaway on the w...
RICHELLE MEAD Abe swept in, resplendent in a gray and yellow suit that coordinated bafflingly well with Adrian's p...
RICHELLE MEAD Ah, Belikov," said Abe, shaking Dimitri's hand. "I'd been hoping we'd run into each other. I'd reall...
RICHELLE MEAD I have it on good authority there's going to be a new 'gate' opening up soon over on the south side ...
RICHELLE MEAD She reached out and touched the bright colors of the cashmere scarf, her face filled with wonder as ...
RICHELLE MEAD Was this all part of your plan as my lawyer? I don't recall explosive escapes being part of the lega...
RICHELLE MEAD What have you gotten me into?" I hissed at him.
"Me? What have you gotten yourself into? Couldn...
RICHELLE MEAD Don't fight them anymore.I'm going to go with them."
"No. I won't let them take you."
"You...
RICHELLE MEAD You approve?" I asked, spinning around.

He slipped an arm around my waist. "Unfortunately...
RICHELLE MEAD You forget: I have an addictive personality. I'm addicted to you. Somehow I think you could do all s...
RICHELLE MEAD Dimitri.
I hadn't known he was here. His eyes were on me too,dark and endless. Only I couldn't ...
RICHELLE MEAD I'm sorry."

"Be sorry you lied," he said, pressing a kiss to my forehead. "Don't be sorr...
RICHELLE MEAD That," I told Tatiana, "is the most fucked-up law I have ever heard.
RICHELLE MEAD As he looked at me, he seemed to send a message of his own: that he would still fight for me, that h...
RICHELLE MEAD In an undertone, I murmured, "This isn't over. I won't give up on you."
"I've given up on you,"...
RICHELLE MEAD What are you, Rose Hathaway? Are you real? You're a dream within a dream. I'm afraid touching you wi...
RICHELLE MEAD Yeah, that's exactly what I want. To help my girlfriend get her old boyfriend back." He turned away ...
RICHELLE MEAD I'll find you. There is no place in this world you can hide from me. I'm watching.
Love, Dimitr...
RICHELLE MEAD Well, you've finally got a license to kill. It's about time.
RICHELLE MEAD You guys didn't really think you could go off on a party weekend without me, did you? Especially her...
RICHELLE MEAD I don't know. This college would probably have the same problem the last one did."

I frow...
RICHELLE MEAD If I could dream, I know I'd dream about you.I'd dream about the way you smell and how your dark hai...
RICHELLE MEAD Don't touch her," he growled.
There was a note in his voice that would of scared me if it had b...
RICHELLE MEAD Checkmate, bitch.
RICHELLE MEAD Damn it," I muttered.

"What?" asked Adrian.

"I hate when you're the sane one...
RICHELLE MEAD You're beautiful in battle," said Dimitri. His cold voice carried to me clearly, even above the roar...
RICHELLE MEAD Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot realit...
RICHELLE MEAD He has no right to threaten my boyfriends. I'm eighteen. An adult. I don't need his help. I can thre...
RICHELLE MEAD Sweat isn't a bad thing," he said, leaning his head against the wall thoughtfully. "Some of the best...
RICHELLE MEAD It’s okay. Everything’s going to be okay. You can let go of the sword."
"I can’t. I can�...
RICHELLE MEAD That's pretty hot," he said.
"Punching me in the eye?"
"Well, no. Of course not. I meant t...
RICHELLE MEAD By the way, my name's Rose Hathaway. I'm seventeen years old, training to protect and kill vampires,...
RICHELLE MEAD Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a...
RICHELLE MEAD what's your name?"
what?" i asked, squinting at the light.
your name." I reconized Dr. Ole...
RICHELLE MEAD Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.
RICHELLE MEAD You were wrong. She really is the new general in town."
I smiled back, hoping he wasn't aware o...
RICHELLE MEAD And I thought the whole point of my education was that violence IS the answer.
RICHELLE MEAD I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...]...
RICHELLE MEAD I love you, Roza." He kissed me again. "I'll always be here for you. I'm not going to let anything h...
RICHELLE MEAD A gun. I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought.
RICHELLE MEAD