“Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.”

“I have had more than one brother, and I have never let fraternity stand in the way of what is just or right.”“It was Gregori who hunted your brother,” Byron pointed out.Mikhail turned his head slowly, black eyes catching the whip of lightning cracking across the sky. “At my order.”

“There were a thousand secrets in her eyes, a thousand wounds. A lifetime of distrust and betrayal. Isolation. How did one overcome such things?”

“He tasted passion. He tasted emotion. He tasted a world he’d never imagined, one he could never enter. It was right there in front of him, suddenly open to him. Unexpected. Exciting. Scary.”

“Trust. Such an easy word. Such an impossible quality.”

“[Kane to Rose] I'll never forget the way you looked walking toward me. I never thought that I'd have a woman like you in my life. It's all there etched in my brain. And now, the way the light pours over our hair, the way all that silk shines, so black it's nearly blue. The world disappears when I'm holding you.”

“We never can just stop time. Or take moments back. Life doesn't work that way, does it?”