“You're burned into my mind forever. There is nothing, nothing in this world that will ever change that.”

“Dimitri: "You're burned in my mind forever. There's nothing, nothing in this world that could ever change that'" Rose: "And it was memories like that that made it hard to even comprehend this quest to kill him, even if he is a Strigoi. Yet . . at the same time, it was exactly memories like that that...i had to destroy him. I needed to remember him as the man who'd love me and held me in bed. I needed to remember that that man would'nt want to stay a monster.”

“I thought then that you were the bravest girl I’d ever met, and nothing that’s happened since has changed my mind.”

“Nothing is forever except change.”

“Nothing that ever was changes. Yet nothing that is can ever be the same as what went before.”

“Ecology, like genetics, is not about equilibrium states. It is about change, change and change. Nothing stays the same forever.”