Daily Digest

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

“You 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.”

“Do you think I'm pretty? I think you're beautiful Beautiful? You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”

“I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.”

“If not for me being stoned and clinging to a taco, it would have been terribly romantic.”

“Was Deirdre right about me purposely wanting relationships that were impossible?”

“You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can.”

“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.”

“If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.”

“Did you see that dress?”

“The book's always better than the movie.”

“I had a standing agreement with god. I'd agree to believe in him, barely, so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.”

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

“Why are they all high-calorie foods?”

“He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.”

“Sex had been amazing, but it wasn't a magical cure for everything. Damn. Somewhere along the way, I'd picked up common sense.”

“Centrum permanebit.”

“Yeah? Can you draw a skeleton riding a motorcycle with flames coming out of it? And I want a pirate hat on the skeleton. And a parrot on his shoulder. A skeleton parrot. Or maybe a ninja skeleton parrot? No, that would be overkill. But it'd be cool if the biker skeleton could be shooting some ninja throwing stars. That are on fire.”

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

“Relax, having kids is years away. But can you imagine? Your brains, my charm, our collective good looks... then add in the usual physical abilities dhampirs get. It's really not even fair to everyone else.”

“For every bad thing in life, there are more good things to tip the balance.”

“If I had learned anything in my life about love, it was that they were tenous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential-but not at the cost of risking your life”

“Things on the essential list: vodka, Nine Inch Nails, a steady supply of mortal men, and an all-purpose bitchy attitude.”

“You're better than this. Better than whatever it is you're going to do now.”

“It 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.”

“The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.”

“Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know.”

“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.”

“Love fades. Mine has.”

“His eyes were on his heart, completely caught up in his work. 'Just something kicking around in my head. Reminds me of you. Fiery and sweet, all at the same time. A flame in the dark, lighting my way.' His voice... his words... I recognized one of his spirit-driven moments. It should've unnerved me, but there was something sensual about the way he spoke, something that made my breath catch. A flame in the dark.”

“And after a while...I mean, how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that...well, some people have to die. My powers aren't a prescription you can get filled as needed.”

“God might work on mysterious ways, but hell worked on efficient ones.”

“Vampires. Honestly, they're like children sometimes.”

“Those words, that voice, had more power over me than any phantom ever could.”

“I've heard that the soul often recognizes truth when it hears it, even if the mind does not.”

“Just friends, just friends. Standing there in the bookstore, watching Seth walk away, I half wondered how anyone could still use that line. But I knew why, of course. It was used because people still believed it. Or at least they wanted to.”

“Adrian was easily distractible by wacky topics and shiny objects.”

“I'm backing down now. I really do love you. That's why I'm doing this.”

“You can't save everyone, though God knows you try.”

“Sometimes 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.”

“Smiling, I cut across the quadrangle toward the commons. I felt better about life than I had in a very long time. We could do this, Lissa and me. We could do this together.”

“Sometimes it's worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination.”

“Let go of me!”

“Other people spoke, and I tried to keep up with the translations. All the stories were about Dimitri's kindness and strength of character. Even when not out battling the undead, Dimitri had always been there to help those who needed it. Almost everyone could recall sometime that Dimitri had stepped up to help others, going out of his way to do what was right, even in situations that could put him at risk. That was no surprise to me. Dimitri always did the right thing. And it was that attitude that had made me love him so much. I had a similar nature. I too rushed in when others needed me, sometimes when I shouldn't have. Others called me crazy for it, but Dimitri had understood. He'd always understood me, and part of what we'd worked on was how to temper that impulsive need to run into danger with reason and calculation. I had a feeling no one else in this world would ever understand me like he did.”

“Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want.”

“You did not just say that. I have a feeling we're on the verge of hugging and coming up with cute nicknames for each other.”

“A gun. I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought.”

“Love fades, mine has. ~Dimitri Belikov~”