How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #4
No matter what happened in our world, a few basic truths about vampires remained the same. Moroi were alive; Strigoi were undead. Moroi were mortal; Strigoi were immortal. Moroi were born; Strigoi were made. (4.111)
As Rose starts to explain the differences between groups to us, it's easy to see why the Morois hate the Strigoi—they do try to bite them, after all—yet we can't help but wonder how that's so different from Morois keeping feeders around to bite all the time. Hmm… maybe it's not.
Quote #5
Dhampirs and Moroi had a strange arrangement. Dhampirs had originally been born from Moroi mixing with humans. Unfortunately, dhampirs couldn't reproduce with each other—or with humans. It was a weird genetic thing. Mules were the same way, I'd been told, though that wasn't a comparison I really liked hearing. Dhampirs and full Moroi could have children together, and, through another genetic oddity, their kids came out as standard dhampirs, with half human genes, half vampire genes. (6.40)
Doesn't it blow when someone compares you to a mule? Poor Rose doesn't want to be like some animal that can't have kids, yet that's exactly what she'll become unless she is with a Moroi. It's a lot for a seventeen-year-old to think about, for sure, but we're more interested in the way she describes each of the races, as though that's just the way things are.
Quote #6
But, much like with Target, it became another matter altogether when someone was trying to pass herself off as something else. And in the week that I'd been here, I'd picked up on how desperately Mia wanted to fit in with the school elite. (6.52)
One of Rose's biggest problems with Mia (aside from the fact that Mia hates her BFF) is that Mia pretends to be something she's not. She wears Target and tries to pass it off as Stella McCartney; she says she's a royal when her parents are cleaners. There's nothing wrong with any of these things, but it's always best to just be yourself.