15 thoughts on “My Favorite Ethan Lines . . .

  • “This is a wish,” he said quietly, “that even after four hundred years of existence, a man can be strong enough to accept the gifts he’s given.” — Twice Bitten

    I can’t WAIT for Biting Cold! GAHH!! It’s so far away!!

    PS: I posted a comment from my phone but it isn’t showing up on my PC… So sorry for the double comment 🙁

  • Love your list.
    My favorites are:
    From ‘Twice Bitten’: “Always remember,” he whispered to me, “that you are an uncommon soldier, whatever they say. And you are quite a thing to behold.”
    From ‘Hard Bitten’: “I’ll have you in my bed again, Sentinel. And at my side. That is a promise.”
    From ‘Drink Deep’: “I have been given a third chance at life, even if the circumstances are somewhat disconcerting. You are mine, and we both know it.”

  • Hum. One of my favorites Ethanism is in twice Bitten when Ethan and Merit are in the office during the party for Lacey and Ethan say this to Merit:

    “It’s too much. You think I haven’t thought about what it might be like to return to my rooms at the end of the night and find you there—to find you in my bed, to have your body and your laugh and your mind? To look across a room and know that you were mine—that I’d claimed you. Me.”
    He drummed a finger against his chest. “Me. Ethan Sullivan. Not the head of Cadogan House, not the four-hundred-year-old vampire, not the child of Balthasar or the Novitiate of Peter Cadogan. Me. Just me. Just you and me.” He moistened his lips and shook his head. “I don’t have that luxury, Merit. I am the Master of this House. The Master of hundreds of vampires I’ve sworn to protect.”
    “I’m one of your vampires,” I reminded him.
    He sighed and rubbed a hand across his forehead. “You are my greatest strength. You are my biggest weakness.”

    And then in the epilogue of Twice Bitten :
    “It is an apology,” he said, “for not believing in you . . . or in us. Yesterday, I thought I’d lost you, and then we fought together,” he said. “I pushed you away for fear of what our relationship would do, could do, to this House. And then we protected this House together. That is the true measure of what we could do.”

    Of course, they’re a lot of Ethanism that I love 🙂

    • I was going to post the library scene, glad someone else already did ^.^ and glad I’m not the only one that likes it. To me that scene summarizes Ethan perfectly!

  • Aneso, you have me swooning all over again with those snippets you posted. You are absolutely right. There *are* a lot of Ethanisms to love.

  • I love this from Hard Bitten:
    “You can run. You can keep running to the ends of the earth. But I won’t be far behind you.”
    “Ethan—”
    “No. I will never be far behind you.” He tipped up my chin so that I could do nothing else but look back into his eyes. “Do the things you need to do. Learn to be a vampire, to be a warrior, to be the soldier you are capable of being. But consider the possibility that I made a mistake I regret—and that I’ll continue to regret that mistake and try to convince you to give me another chance until the earth stops turning.”

  • I love the Hard Bitten line – “you can run….”

    I’m still partial to when he says “Be still” at certain moments 😉

    Also, not really a single Ethanism, but still love the scene where he sneaks up on her in the library in Friday Night Bites. Rawr!

  • Also love the previously mentioned:

    From ‘Drink Deep’: “I have been given a third chance at life, even if the circumstances are somewhat disconcerting. You are mine, and we both know it.”

  • Oh Aneso, i believe that is one of my favorite scenes of Ethan and Merit! It breaks my heart all over again when i read Twice Bitten. *sigh*
    ready for more Ethan! 🙂

  • “You can run. You can keep running to the ends of the earth. But I won’t be far behind you.” – Ethan
    P.S Don’t you think the perfect Merit is Katy Perry when she had bangs.

  • “I have been given a third chance at life, even if the circumstances are somewhat disconcerting. You are mine, and we both know it.”
    Oh and i agree with you, i see Merit as Katy Perry or Adriana Lima

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