Quotes About Reflection

Damn, my word of the night

I was sure seeing pictures of Dimitri as a little boy would rip my heart out.

Keep it. I think I've got something else to help center my life." - Adrian Ivashkov

Sometimes it takes more courage to know when to retreat than to keep fighting.

Everyone grew silent. It was sunset now, with orange fire burning in the western sky, and shadows falling across all of us.

How can I explain what I myself don't understand?

With a start, I realized I'd begun to frown. I tried to relax my face. Unbidden, Adrian's words had come back to me, that the next time I was in bed with Dimitri, I should think about others who weren't so lucky. "Do you think I ruin lives?" I asked.

I tortured myself day after day with what if? questions. What if I'd been faster and stronger during the Strigoi fight? What if I hadn't told him where the Strigoi were in the first place? And what if I'd simply been able to return his love? Any of those could have kept him alive, but none of them had happened. And it was all my fault.

It's a tricky art, working with them in their purest form," she mused. "Simultaneously simple yet infinitely complex." It sounded like my relationship with Adrian.

But i do believe in souls being in sync, souls that mirror each other.

Oh, great. I'm a doll.

I kept wanting to sit and rest, to curl up in a ball and think of nothing else. No, no, no. The light. I had to go toward the light. That almost made me laugh out loud. It was funny, really. Like I was someone having a near-death experience. Then I did laugh. This whole night had been full of near-death experiences.

I'd never really planned on stealing someone else's life.

Aren't we all alone?" I asked with a rueful smile. "Yes. I think in the end, we all are, no matter what the songs and happy stories say. I guess it's just a matter of who we choose to be alone with." "That's why I come here, you know. To be alone with other people. There's isolation in a crowd. You're hidden. Safe.

She shook her head and almost laughed. 'My reaction was a little stronger than 'crap,' Rose. Do you have any idea what you've done?

Keep calm because love fades. Mine has.

Don't be sorry you loved him. That's part of you, part you have to let go, yeah, but still something that's made you who you are.

Do you think I'm pretty?" He regarded me with utter seriousness, like he always did. "I think you're beautiful." "Beautiful?" "You are so beautiful, it hurts me sometimes.

God, I feel so stupid.

Depends. Did you stop at the drugstore, along with your trip to the wine store?" "Stop there? Hell, I bought that place out, Sydney. I'm having no repeats of last time.

Like calls to like.

There's something tiring about an endless, unknown stretch of highway.

Wrong? I don't know, Sage. Honestly, that was the most right thing that's happened to me in a while.

I wasn't always the most imaginative person, but I thought back to what I'd said about living another life. What would it be like to have a home like this? To stay in one place? To spend days by the pool, soaking in the sun, and not worrying about the fate of humanity?