Claudia Gray

Huging my pillow to my chest, I told myself, At least soon you won't have so much time to miss him. Soon school will start again, and then you'll be busier. Wait. Am I reduced to HOPING for school to start? Somehow, I have discovered a whole new level of pathetic.

The opposite of faith isn’t doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty.

But nothing was a important as escaping Evernight or the ‘destiny’ my parents and teachers had decided for me. I had only one chance to be free and to be with the guy I loved. I intended to take it.

I went to him in the doorway and embraced him tightly. 'Thank you,' I whispered. 'You've done so much for us, and we've done nothing for you.'Don't say that.' Vic's hands patted my back. 'You're my friends. Nothing else to it.

But do you want this? It's not much of a life. Don't you see? It's the first life I've had in four hundred years. With you--in the only way that matters--I'm alive again.