Page 176 of Balthazar (Evernight 5)

Skye nodded. She’d always known that, deep down. “But you want this?” The path she was asking him to walk down wasn’t any easier for him than it was for her: always on the run, always at risk, with predators from his past forever on their trail. “It’s not much of a life.”

“Don’t you see? It’s the first life I’ve had in four hundred years.” Balthazar cupped her cheek in his hand. “With you—in the only way that matters—I’m alive again.”