"Perhaps he should go back to Italy; to his hiding place. What made him think he could rejoin the world of daylight."
Stefan, The Awakening, Chapter One, page 6

"Now she let her mind leaf back through memoies, and the lump in her thoat swelled, and the tears came easier. She missed them so much, still."
Elena, The Awakening, Chapter Four, page 38

"She was frightened of what she was seeing; frightened of what Stefan might do. And frightened above all else of Stefan's voice, that cold voice that was like rapier dancing, beautiful and deadly and utterly merciless."
Elena, The Awakening, Chapter Seven, page 84

"Something is wrong with Stefan and me. There is this terrible sadness inside him that I can't reach, and it's driving us apart. I don't know what to do."
Elena, The Awakening, Chapter Eleven, page 134

"Stefan had been caught in that flash of light, half...