~+*+~ CHAPTER ONE ~+*+~
Rose: "Oh, Liss . . . I don't know. I don't want any, um, unfair advantage."
Lissa: "That's not the problem, and you know it. This one's fine, I swear."
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Stan: "People were even making bets about whether you'd show."
Janine: "I think that's the least of your problems right now. Worry less about them and more about that field."
Rose: "Do you think they're talking about me?"
Janine: "Rose!"
- Rose Hathaway and Janine Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
Janine: "That was it? Rose, you were out there for almost an hour. You blew through that test with flying colors--probably one of the best trials this school's ever seen."
Rose: "Really? It just seemed . . . It was a haze, that's all."
Janine: "You were amazing. I'm so, so proud of you."
Rose: "Now what happens?"
Janine: "Now you become a guardian."
- Rose Hathaway and Janine Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
- Adrian Ivashkov (Spirit Bound)
Christian: "It'd be a waste of nice hair,"
- Rose Hathaway and Christian Ozera (Spirit Bound)
Rose: "Is no woman safe around here?"
Abe: "What are you talking about?"
Rose: "You're flirting with every woman in this room!"
Abe: "Well, there are so many lovely women here."
- Rose Hathaway and Abe Mazur (Spirit Bound)
Rose: "So they had me do that crazy bridge stunt instead? And if they were surprised I cut it, then what the hell else did they expect me to do? How else was I supposed to survive that?"
Abe: "Hmm. I honestly don't think they knew."
Rose: "Oh, for God's sake. This is unbelievable."
- Abe Mazur and Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
"He (Abe) must have underestimated my potential for insanity"
- Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
"Well, don't let me stop you. Go lure more women into your web."
- Rose Hathaway to Abe Mazur (Spirit Bound)
Rose: "Hey, we're just happy to see you."
Mia: "I believe you. But I also believe you've got an ulterior motive."
Lissa: "What makes you say that? Can you read Rose that well or do you just always assume she's got an ulterior motive?"
Mia: "Both."
- Mia Rinaldi, Rose Hathaway and Lissa Dragomir (Spirit Bound)
"I don't really need a job or extra money. After Rose and I get married, the kids and I'll just live off of her guardian paycheck."
- Adrian Ivashkov (Spirit Bound)
Rose: "Yup, sorry. You know--girl stuff." And by girl stuff, I meant breaking and entering.
- Adrian Ivashkov and Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
Rose: "A spoon?"
Lissa: "Hey, it's not easy to keep getting a hold of silver. I have to take what I can get."
Rose: "Well, it'd make for happy dinner parties."
Lissa: "Speaking of which . . . how was your dinner party? ... I don't suppose Her Royal Majesty showed up?"
Rose: "She did, and . . . it wasn't awful."
Lissa: "What? Did you say 'wasn't'?"
'"What if Ms. Karp--if Sonya--could become Moroi again? What if you could be together again?" It'd also mean she'd be crazy again, but that was a technicality for later.'
- Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
Mia: "I sure do wish I knew what you guys were doing."
Rose: "No. I'm not sure that you do."
Mia Rinaldi and Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
Tasha: "I think they're hoping it'll shut me up about Moroi fighting with dhampirs. Kind of a bribe."
Rose: "One you won't fall for, I'm sure."
Tasha: "Nope. If anything, it'll just give me someone to practice with."
- Rose Hathaway and Tasha Ozera (Spirit Bound)
Tasha: "More champagne?"
Adrian: "Lady Ozera, you and I are two minds with a single thought."
- Tasha Ozera and Adrian Ivhashkov (Spirit Bound)
"We passed through the casino's edge to get to the front desk, where the attendant didn't even blink at three teenagers and an old man getting a room together. I had to imagine that around her, they saw it all."
- Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
Victor: "It's an early dinner. Four Thirty. And the sun won't go down until almost eight."
Rose: "Four Thirty? Good God. Are we getting the senior citizen special?"
- Victor Dashkov and Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
Rose: "Yeah. It was kind of a shock to us too."
Rose: "Must not have been all that secure."
- Adrian Ivashkov and Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
"Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore."
- Adrian Ivashkov (Spirit Bound)
- Robert Doru (Spirit Bound)
"That which is dead doesn't always stay dead..."
- Robert Doru (Spirit Bound)
Lissa: "Then there's no danger."
Rose: "Aside from a Strigoi killing you."
- Robert Doru, Lissa Dragomir and Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
- Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
- Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
"Because you're my friend. I stayed with you through all of this ... breaking out Victor, listening to his crazy brother ... because I knew you had a real reason for getting Victor out-and that you were going to return him. Does it sound crazy? Yeah, but that's normal for you."
- Eddie Castile to Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
Rose: "Don't you dare talk about them like that, or I'll smash that wineglass in your face."
Moroi Man: "Feisty."
Adrian: "You have no idea."
- Rose Hathaway, Adrian Ivashkov and a moroi man (Spirit Bound)
"Adrian slipped an arm around me, which I suspected was a silent message to let him do the talking. Whether that was because he believed that was "proper" blood whore behavior or because he was worried I'd punch the guy, I couldn't say."
- Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
Moroi Man: "You should dress her better, you know."
Adrian: "I'm not interested in putting clothes on her."
- Adrian Ivashkov and a Moroi Man (Spirit Bound)
Adrian: "We've got more important things to worry about."
Rose: "Like covering up a crime and getting out of this city without being attacked by Strigoi?"
Adrian: "No. Like me winning money."
Rose: "Are you crazy?"
Adrian: "The fact that we're alive means we should live,"
- Adrian Ivashkov and Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
"I froze. A desk job. Hans was threatening me with a desk job."
- Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
"Throughout my training we always had a mantra; They come first. If I had really and truly screwed up my future, I'd have a new mantra; A come first. Then B, C, D ..."
- Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
"I guessed it was better for people to think Adrian and I were running off than for them to accuse me of aiding and abetting a fugitive."
- Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
"Christian's pale blue eyes were staring at us, wide and shocked. Like most of my friends, he rolled with crazy ideas, but this was pushing the crazy line."
- Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
- Christian Ozera (Spirit Bound)
"Lissa was going to attempt to learn to stake a Strigoi--behind my back--and she was going to get Christian to help her. Those two had been snarling at each other since the breakup. I should have felt flattered that sneaking around me was bringing them together, but I wasn't."
- Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
"That's ridiculous." Especially the part about Christian being manly.
- Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
Rose: "I really am sorry. For everything . . . for lying about where I was and what I was doing. It was wrong. And I don't understand . . . well, I don't get why you're being so nice to me."
Adrian: "Should I be mean? Is that the kind of thing you're into?"
- Rose Hathaway and Adrian Ivashkov (Sprit Bound)
Rose: "Not even trying to bring my ex-boyfriend back from the dead?"
- Adrian Ivashkov & Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
- Adrian Ivashkov (Spirit Bound)
Rose: "I hate it when you're the sane one. That's my job."
Adrian: "Rose, I can think of many words to describe you, sexy and hot being at the top of the list. You know what's not on the list? Sane."
Rose: "Okay, well, then my job is to be the less crazy one."
Adrian: "That I can accept."
- Rose Hathaway and Adrian Ivashkov (Spirit Bound)
"The guardians can't punish me forever."
Adrian looked skeptical.
- Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
Rose - 'He had a point. In my mind, punishment involved easy things like lashings and starvation. Not filing.'
- Hans Croft & Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
Rose: "Can I take it to go?"
Hans: "If you can eat it before we get back."
Rose - 'His voice was skeptical, seeing as the vault was pretty close. Clearly, he was underestimating my ability to consume food.'
- Rose Hathaway & Hans Croft (Spirit Bound)
"Come on! Isn't it lunchtime? You have to feed me. That's just beyond cruel. At least throw me some crumbs."
- Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
~+*+~ CHAPTER FIFTEEN ~+*+~
Rose: ". . . I have to kill him."
Adrian: "Good, I'm glad."
Rose: "God. Are you that eager to get rid of any competition?"Adrian: "No. I just know that as long as he's still alive--or, well, kind of alive--then you're in danger. And I can't stand that. I can't stand knowing that your life is in the balance. And it is, Rose. You'll never be safe until he's gone. I want you safe. I need you to be safe. I can't . . . I can't have anything happen to you."-Rose Hathaway and Adrian Ivashkov (Spirit Bound)
"Hathaway! Good God, do I need to hose you down?"
- Hans Croft (Spirit Bound)
~+*+~ CHAPTER SIXTEEN ~+*+~
Dimitri: "You're beautiful in battle. Like an avenging angel come to deliver the justice of heaven."
Rose: "Funny. That is kind of why I'm here."
Dimitri: "Angels fall, Rose."
- Dimitri Belikov and Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
~+*+~ CHAPTER SEVENTEEN ~+*+~
Christian: "How do you feel?"
Lissa: "Tired. Worn out. Like . . . I don't know. Like I've been thrown around in a hurricane. Or run over by a car. Pick something horrible, and that's what I feel like."
- Christian Ozera and Lissa Dragomir (Spirit Bound)~+*+~ CHAPTER EIGHTEEN ~+*+~
Dimitri: "You saved me."
Lissa: "I only did the final piece. The rest . . . well, Rose did, um, a lot."
Rose - 'Say, like, organizing a prison break and releasing fugitives.'
Dimitri Belikov, Lissa Dragomir, and Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
"... standing and yelling in the guardians' office wouldn't really help me get to Dimitri. Well, I supposed there was the off chance I might annoy them so much that they'd throw me in jail too. Then Dimitri and I would be next to each other. I promptly dismissed that plan, fearing the only thing it would land me with was more filing."- Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)"I didn't even entirely know what I was crying for. The trauma and blood of the last day. My own broken heart. Dimitri's sorrow. The cruel circumstances that had ruined our lives. Really, there were a lot of choices."- Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)~+*+~ CHAPTER NINETEEN ~+*+~
Rose: "Some days I think you're in more danger from yourself than anyone else. You smell like cigarettes, you know."Adrian: "Hey, I have never, ever said I was perfect. And you're wrong. You're probably the most dangerous thing in my life."- Rose Hathaway and Adrian Ivashkov (Spirit Bound)
"She tossed her torch into the fire pit, and it lit up like the Fourth of July. Someone must have doused that wood with either gasoline or Russian vodka. Maybe both."- Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)"This is a lame party. I couldn't tell if we were supposed to be having a funeral or summoning the devil. It was kind of a half-assed attempt at both."- Christian Ozera (Spirit Bound)
~+*+~ CHAPTER TWENTY ~+*+~
'Daniella looked scandalized. "Did you just say Jailbait?"'
- Daniella Ivashkov (Spirit Bound)
"Yeah, I was at the Masquerade of the Damned."
- Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)Dimitri: "They weren't supposed to let you in."
Rose: "Yeah. Well, I kind of found a work-around."
Dimitri: "Of course you did."
- Dimitri Belikov and Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
"Lissa had approached it with kindness and compassion. She'd gotten through his (Dimitri) defenses, though a lot of that was because he regarded her as his savior. I could try a similar tactic. I could be gentle and supportive and full of love--all of which were true. I loved him. I wanted to help him so badly. Yet I wasn't sure that particular method would work for me. Rose Hathaway was not always known for the soft approach."
- Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
Dimitri: "Your optimism . . . your belief that you can make anything happen. Oh, Rose. It's one of the amazing things about you. It's also one of the most infuriating things about you."
Rose: "I believed that you could come back from being a Strigoi. Maybe my belief in the impossible isn't so crazy after all."
- Dimitri Belikov and Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
"You don't understand what it's like coming through what I did--coming back from being a Strigoi. It's changed everything. It's not just that what I did to you is unforgivable. All my feelings . . . my emotions for you . . . they changed. I don't feel the way I used to. I might be a dhampir again, but after what I went through . . . well, it's scarred me. It altered my soul. I can't love anyone now. I can't--I don't--love you. There's nothing more between you and me."
- Dimitri Belikov (Spirit Bound)
~+*+~ CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO ~+*+~
Rhonda: "I'd say you have an enemy."
Rose: "Yeah, I think I can guess who. I just called her a sanctimonious bitch."
- Rhonda and Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
Rose - 'It was the best-looking one in the bunch, the Six of Swords. It had a bunch of people in a boat, rowing off over moonlit water.'Rhonda: "A journey,"Rose: "I was just on a journey. A few of them. Man, this isn't, like, some kind of a spiritual journey is it?"Rose Hathaway and Rhonda (Spirit Bound)
Rhonda: "This is hidden from me."
Rose: "The Page of Cups. Seems pretty obvious. It's a page with, um, cups."
- Rhonda and Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
~+*+~ CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE ~+*+~
"Hans truly thought Dimitri was aa dhampir again. I would love him forever for that, no matter how much filing he made me do."
- Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
~+*+~ CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR ~+*+~
"I've given up on you. Love fades. Mine has."
- Dimitri Belikov (Spirit Bound)Rose: "Evening. Not Morning."
Sydney: "We can argue your messed-up unholy schedule some other time."
- Rose Hathaway and Sydney Sage (Spirit Bound)
Rose: "You made a deal with him (Abe)? What did you give him in return? Your soul?"'Making a joke like that to someone as religious as her wasn't very appropriate. Of course, I think she thought Moroi and dhampirs ate souls, so maybe my comment wasn't to out there.'
Sydney: "That's the thing. It was kind of an 'I'll let you know when I need a favor in the future' arrangement."
Rose: "Sucker."
- Rose Hathaway and Sydney Sage (Spirit Bound)
Sydney: "I need to ask you something. And I swear I won't tell on you ... I just need to know the truth so that we don't waste our time on something."
Rose: "Okay ..." Please don't ask me about Victor, I prayed.
Sydney: "Have you broken into any place lately?"
Rose - Damn
- Sydney Sage and Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
Rose: "Wait. You guys get robbed, and I'm the one you suspect? I thought I was off your list of evil creatures?"
Sydney: " No dhampir is off my list of evil creatures. And believe me, if anyone could break into our records, you could. It's not easy. Practically impossible."
Rose: "Um, thank you?"
- Rose Hathaway and Sydney Sage (Spirit Bound)
Sydney: "the guy with you ... the tall Moroi with dark hair ... is that your boyfriend?"
Rose: "Er, yeah."
Sydney: "He's cute."
Rose: "For an evil creature of the night?"
- Sydney Sage and Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
Dimitri: "I don't have to forgive myself even if God does. And I'm not sure He would."
Rose: "That priest just said God would. He said God forgives everything. Are you calling the priest a liar? That's pretty sacrilegious."
- Dimitri Belikov and Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
~+*+~ CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE ~+*+~
"If only it were that easy. You forget: I have an addictive personality. I'm addicted to you. Somehow I think you could do all sorts of bad things to me, and I'd still come back to you."
- Adrian Ivashkov (Spirit Bound)
Adrian: "What are you rose hathaway, are you real? You're a dream within a dream. I'm afraid touching you makes me wake up, you'll disappear."
Rose: "Touch me and find it out!"
- Adrian Ivashkov & Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
"He was almost naked too, but I hadn't quite gotten to his boxers yet. (They were silk because, honestly what else would Adrian wear?)"
- Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
"That was the best not-sex ever."
- Adrian Ivashkov (Spirit Bound)
~+*+~ CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX ~+*+~
"I'd been watching the drama between the two men like a tennis match, and now the ball had hit me in the head."
- Rose Hathaway (Sprit bound)Christian: "In spite of everything, even with Avery--"
Lissa: "Christian, I'm so sorry for that--"
Christian: "You don't have to--"
Lissa: "I do--"
Christian: "Damn it. Will you let me finish a sent--"
Lissa: "No."
- Christian Ozera and Lissa Dragomir (Spirit Bound)"Well. Apparently Tasha had been right: I was the only one who could bring them back together. I just somehow hadn't expected my arrest to play a role."
- Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)~+*+~ CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN ~+*+~
"My escort ... motioned me toward a spot next to a middle-aged Moroi in a very formal and very designer black suit. The suit screamed, I'm sorry the queen is dead, and I'm going to look fashionable while showing my grief."
- Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
Rose: "What have you gotten me into?"
Abe: "Me? What have you gotten yourself into? Couldn't I have just picked you up at the police station for underage drinking, like most fathers?"
- Rose Hathaway and Abe Mazur (Spirit Bound)
"It's too suspicious. If I were going to murder someone, I wouldn't be that stupid.
Do you think I'd leave my stake stuck in her chest? Do you think I wouldn't wear gloves? Come on. That's insulting. If I'm as crafty as you claim my record says I am, then why would I do it this way? I mean, seriously? If I did it, it'd be a lot better. You'd never even peg me as a suspect. This is all really kind of an insult to my intelligence."
- Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
Abe: "They don't even send royal traitors to prison, Rose. Everyone knows that."
Rose: "Are you insane? Of course they do. What else do you think they do with traitors? Set them free and tell them not to do it again?"
Abe: "No. They execute traitors."
- Abe Mazur and Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)
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