Dimitri: “You and I will both be Lissa’s guardians someday. I need to protect her at all costs. If a pack of Strigoi come, I need to throw my body between them and her.”

Rose: “I know that. Of course that’s what you have to do.”

Dimitri: “No. If I let myself love you, I won’t throw myself in front of her. I’ll throw myself in front of you.”