Sophie Jordan quotes:

I was immediately swept up in Ariane's story. Equal parts thrill-ride and love story, The Rules is intense and emotional. This book stays with you long after you finish.

Ironic, huh? To keep that part of me alive, I have to be close to that which kills it.

See you soon (but not soon enough).

Yeah. A real date. Something official. You. Me. Tonight. We're long overdue.

After running for my life from hunters, a girl with too much lip gloss doesn't register on my fear radar.

All my life people have called me gifted. Extraordinary. Blessed. I had all these dreams to become something. Someone. No one ever said I couldn't. No one ever said Killer.

Before I sought truth. Now I seek justice.

He stares at me so darkly, so hungily that I can only nod. Agree. Of course, I feel it. "I do", I admit.

I am what everyone always thought. A killer.

You have my word. If you return with me, you won't be harmed. I'd die first.

He may be stronger, but I'm not defenseless. He knows that, of coarse. That's why he's here. He wants me for what I can do after all.

Some of us are killers. It's in our blood... that ability. It doesn't mean we walk around killing withour conscience, but we're just... better equipped to do it. Some people don't have it in them, but we do. You'll feel a lot better once you accept that.

Don't stay away from me anymore."I stop myself, just barely, from telling him I won't. I can't promise that. Can't lie. He opens his eyes. Stares starkly, bleakly. "I need you.

A hunter in love with his prey.

Because I know what it feels like to be used, valued only for what you can do... not who you are, not who you want to be.

I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.

It's unclear who moves first. We're in each other's arms, lips locked, melded, hotly fused. Our hands drag over each other, reacquainting, remembering, almost as if we're both verifying the other one is real flesh and blood.

My imprint is there for the world to see. I don't try to hide it with my hair or a high collar. When I got ready for school this morning, I kept thinking of Sean. How proud he appears. Unapologetic. And I want to be like that. I don't want to look cowed or ashamed. I may not want to be this, but I don't want to be that girl, either. I don't want to be afraid.

Never forget that we are more than the genetic code. We can be more than labels applied to us. We can be more than what others whisper behind our backs. Free will exists. We need to choose to be the best we can be and we need to help others do the same. Believe in yourself.

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

What good is safety if you're dead inside?

You can't even see it. I'm the safest thing you'll ever find