elena

For the first time in forever, he was stunned to silence. Not by her words, but by the tenderness in her hands, the worry in her eyes. He was an archangel. He__ been wounded far, far worse and shrugged it off. But then, there had been no woman with sun kissed by the sunset and eyes of storm gray to tear into him for daring to get himself hurt.

I'm hoping you end up happily married to the man of your dreams and have a hoard of beautiful kids that'll keep you on your toes by turning your neighbours into various types of pond-life." He then shot her his signature grin. "But if it happens to be me, then I wouldn't say no."(Karl to Elena in The Witching Pen)

The bastard kissed her. She was so mad, she bit him hard enough to draw blood. Raphael pulled back, lip already beginning to swell. __e are no longer even, Elena. You__e now in debt.___ou can deduct it from my slow and painful death.

Under her palm, his heart beat strong and sure. It was such a human sound, so honest, so real.

I look into my heart and see the abyss looking back at me.''I won't let you fall.

I got to eavesdrop at a window. As Clay said, I did have another option. I could wait in the car and let them fill me in later. So, eavesdropping it was.

Dmitri clearly gives good . . . blood.

You do realize this makes your wings even more unique.""Are you saying you shot me as a cosmetic procedure?

Option 1: Attempt to back out.Probable result: Death after painful torture.Option 2: Do the job and hope.Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)

What can I say? I prefer to die well informed.

It's not wrong to hustle hustlers. It's like killing murderers, a public service. -Damon Salvatore

Do you know where Jason is?_ she asked Dmitri when they exited the morgue. Dmitri pressed the car remote to unlock the flame red Ferrari parked in the employees-only lot. __ired of your Bluebell already?_ A tendril of champagne circled around her senses, cut with something far harder. Never had she felt that harsh edge in Dmitri__ scent. She pitied the woman he took to his bed today.__eah, that__ it. I__ building a harem.

I can smell blood, Elena,_ Dmitri drawled, walking back into the room. __re you trying to flirt?

It doesn't matter if you can't say it right now. I'll say it for both of us. And someday you'll learn.

You could rattle the stars,' she whispered. 'You could do anything, if only you dared.

Yes, she was the girl playing basketball with all the boys in the park, collecting cans by the side of the road, keeping secret pet kittens in an empty boxcar in the woods, walking alone at night through the rail yards, teaching her little sister how to kiss, reading out loud to herself, so absorbed by the story, singing sadly in the tub, building a fort from the junked cars out in the meadow, by herself in the front row at the black-and-white movies or in the alley, gazing at an eddy of cigarette stubs and trash and fall leaves, smoking her first cigarette at dusk by a pile of dead brush in the desert, then wishing at the stars--she was all of them, and she was so much more that just just her that I still didn't know.

You ever had a hickey? I want to give you a hickey.""Karl, we're not fourteen!""Don't bloody care. I was in love with you when I was fourteen -- your neck owes me a hickey."(Karl & Elena)

And Meredith and Bonnie, who's going to bend some spoons for us next. I'm going to throw you down a rope_ that is, unless Bonnie can levitate you out.