Quotes from work

Shadow Kiss

“You, know I'm the Queen's favorite great nephew, Well, yeah I'm her only great nephew, but that's not important, I'd still be her favorite…”

“Goodbye. Thanks for your help… I… I'll miss you. -Rose to Mason”

“I left her there crying as I walked toward the gate. A piece of my soul had died when Dimitri had fallen. Turning my back on her now, I felt another piece die as well. Soon there wouldn't be anything left inside me.”

“You two are a match made in heaven. Or somewhere.”

“Why are you hanging around, then? Aren't you worried about getting hit?"
"Aw, you'd never hurt me. My face is too pretty.”

“Throughout history, people with new ideas—who think differently and try to change things—have always been called troublemakers.”

“Turning away, I stared at the long road winding off ahead of me.

I sighed. This trip might take awhile.
"Then start walking, Rose," I muttered to myself.

I set off, off to kill the man I loved.”

“Because it's simple, I love you, and I don't want to keep pretending like I don't. -Rose to Dimitri”

“Oh my God," he said. "A kind word from Rose Hathaway. I can die a happy man.”

“I also have a feeling your mother’s going to have a very ugly conversation with me." – Dimitri”

“My cigarettes and I are going outside. At least they show me respect.”

“And I thought the whole point of my education was that violence IS the answer.”

“We try to do what's right, or rather what other say is right. But sometimes, when that goes against who we are… you have to choose.”

“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.”

“Unbelievable," I said. "First you wanted to hide her away to keep you alive. Now you actually want her out in the world to use her compulsion for your own psycho plans.”

“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.”

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

“Rose is in red,
But never in blue,
Sharp as a thorn,
Fights like one too.”

“You can't fool me, comrade. You want to put on a cowboy hat and keep lawless bank robbers in line.”