“Rest,” Logan said. “Both of you.” His caressing gaze moved over his wife and infant daughter.“I’ll watch over you.”“Love me?” Madeline asked with a faint smile, and yawned again.“It used to be love.” He brushed his lips over her closed eyelids. “Now there’s no word for it.”“You once told me that you thought love was a weakness.”“I was wrong,” he whispered, kissing the corners of her mouth. “I’ve discovered it’s my onlystrength.”Madeline fell asleep with a smile still on her lips, her hand curled around his.”

“Gem, there is an exception to every rule and we are going to be it. I’m not losing you.”

“Never give a woman flowers to say I love you . Tell her how much you love her and you will wake up looking at the flowers beside her bed.”

“Max: “You’ll never be good enough to deserve her, you know.”Ash: “God doesn’t always give you what you deserve,” Ash said quietly. “Sometimes he gives you what you can’t live without.”

“You’re a virgin. You have no idea what you’re asking for.””Then you will have to teach me.””Not like this. Not on a horse in the middle of nowhere.”

“You said she’s a senior? Babe we’re ALL crazy.”

“Misunderstanding and distrust—the predominant elements of a novel. Without them, everyone lives happily from beginning.”

“Because just beingaround you makes me so fucking happy, you airhead. Ilike you. I want you. I see my unborn children in youreyes—okay scratch that one. I swear to fuck I’m notbeing flip here.” I sighed. “What my heart doeswhenever you’re near isn’t just about chemistry Cam.It’s like…stargazing. I feel insignificant and dazzled.Hopeful yet completely unprepared.”

“the unexpected moment [is] always sweeter.”

“The longer I lived, the longer it would be until I saw him alive again, until I could taste his new lips and run my fingers through his new hair. We could be young and beautiful again . . .”

“What have I done to her?” Gabriel muttered to himself as he crossed the room to crank open a window. Cool air washed over his skin. “What the devil did she do to me?”

“One day, Kaname’s lips will lightly touch this neck of yours, and slowly, Kaname’s teeth will sink in… If you hear the sound of Kaname drinking your own blood, Yuki-chan, then, for sure, you’ll feel ecstasy.”

“I want to bask deeply in the taste of his blood, in that flowing crimson filled with his feelings melted in it…”

“He was the most perfectly formed man she’d ever imagined. He was movie stars, men in underwear commercials, guys at the gym, the construction worker in the red T-shirt who’d whistled at her but she’d pretended she hadn’t heard; he was the men in three-piece suits whose brains were as sexy as their bodies; he was lazy, indolent seventeen-year-old boys whose muscles bulged out of their clothes, rodeo stars, and those smooth-cheeked, eyeglassed men who held their children tenderly. He was all of them.”

“In case you haven’t noticed, they’re moving a lot faster. I don’t know about the laws of physics on your planet, but where I come from an object moving at subclass speed can’t catch up to one running at starclass. But if you know something about turbines, thrusters and engines, quantum or classical physics that I’ve somehow missed, then please enlighten me.- Caillen Dagan to Desideria Denarii”