Marked Friendship Quotes

When Zoey first meets Stevie Rae, her roommate-to-be at the House of Night, Zoey asks why Stevie Rae didn't pester her for info about her strange filled-in Mark. Stevie Rae's response is classic: She wants to be Zoey's friend, so she'll be respectful and stay out of her business. Gosh, wouldn't it be nice if more people thought that way?

Zoey's new friends do tease her sometimes. Like right here, Damien jokes about how "our Zoey" has such a way with vulgar language when she says "poopie." When your friends feel comfortable enough with you to make mild jokes at your expense, though, that's often a good sign about how close you're becoming.

When Elizabeth no-last-name dies after her body rejects the Change, Stevie Rae explains to Zoey how the fledglings are supposed to handle grieving. Which is to say, they're not supposed to engage in it, unless they were friends with the deceased. That seems like one way to handle death, we suppose, though it makes us wonder if friendships and relationships work differently in the vampyre world.

It's no fun to realize that your best friend is trying to poach your boyfriend… but this is exactly what Zoey realizes once she sees the way Kayla looks at Heath. Ugh. In our minds, being friends with someone means respecting their preexisting relationships, but maybe Kayla didn't get that memo. Or maybe she figures Heath is fair game since Zoey's now Marked to become a vampyre. Whatever the cause, we wouldn't trust Kayla to have our backs.

Stevie Rae tells Zoey about her first encounter with the Dark Daughters, which is also how she became friends with Damien, Erin, and Shaunee. They caught up with her after that traumatic experience, told her not to worry about it, and became her friends. True friends right from the start.

When Zoey decides to try casting her own ritual circle in order to do the purification prayer and ask for guidance from Nyx, her friends volunteer to come along for the ride. Zoey finds this really reassuring. Not only that, but she hears a voice in her head telling her that she should treasure her friends. This voice has been speaking up since her encounter with Nyx, and she's slowly learning to trust it (just like she's slowly learning to trust her friends).

Zoey feels like a freak for craving blood as early as she does in her new life as a vampyre fledgling, and she's terrified that her friends will find out and reject her. Yes, from a human perspective, wanting to drink blood is pretty gross. But they're all in the same boat, as potential vampyres, so maybe her friends won't judge her so harshly?

Zoey tells her friends not to come to the Dark Daughters Samhain ritual, and she's kind of harsh when she does. So she spends a bunch of time worrying that she's offended them and that they don't like her anymore… but it turns out that they've been avoiding her in order to secretly make plans to be there to support her anyway. Yay for friends showing up when you need them most.

Ever faced down a ritual circle of hungry ghosts? That's basically what Zoey asks her friends to do—and they totally come through for her. She can feel their trust and loyalty, and it comes through so strongly that it almost feels like one of the five elements. Seems like an indication of how strong their friendship is.

After dealing with the crisis of the hungry ghosts, Zoey tears Aphrodite a new one. This includes telling Aphrodite off for all the things that were her fault, such as drawing negative spirits to the ritual space by using the wrong herbs. Also, according to Zoey, Aphrodite's "friends" bugged out and left her to run the circle by herself. Is that really Aphrodite's fault, though? Can anyone be faulted for the behavior of their friends (or so-called friends)? Over to you, Shmoopers.