Richelle Mead Quotes: 109

• You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.

  Frostbite

• I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.

  Blood Promise

• Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.

  Vampire Academy

• Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

  Vampire Academy

• Ah, my daughter,ʺ he said. ʺEighteen, and already youʹve been accused of murder, aided felons, and acquired a death count higher than most guardians will ever see.ʺ He paused. ʺI couldnʹt be prouder.

  Last Sacrifice

• The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.

  Vampire Academy

• Did you see that dress?” "I saw the dress.” "Did you like it?” He didn't answer. I took that as a yes. "Am I going to endanger my reputation if I wear it to the dance?” When he spoke, I could barely hear him. "You'll endanger the school.” I smiled and fell asleep.

  Vampire Academy

• You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can.

  Shadow Kiss

• I know how devastated you must be to miss me, but leave a message, and I'll try to ease your agony

  Blood Promise

• What's up?"I asked.You tell me,"he said. "You were the one about ready to start making out with Adrian."It was an experiment,"I said. "It was part of my therapy."What the hell kind of therapy are you in?

  Shadow Kiss

• There's nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what'll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueler than any captor.

  Frostbite

• He stepped back and threw his arms out."I'm always crazy around you Rose. Here, I'm going to write an impromptu poem for you."He tipped his head back and shouted to the sky:"Rose is in redBut never in blueSharp as a thornFights like one too.

  Shadow Kiss

• what's your name?"what?"i asked, squinting at the light.your name."I reconized Dr. Olendzki peering over me.you know my name."I want you to tell me."Rose. Rose Hathaway."Do you know your birthday?"Of course I do. Why are you asking me such stupid things? Did you lose my records?"Dr. Olendzki gave an exasperated sigh and walked off, taking the annoying light with her. "I think she's fine,

  Frostbite

• Dimitri: "Why did you come here?"Rose: "Because you hit me on the head and dragged me here.

  Blood Promise

• Dimitri: "She might be wild and disrespectful, but if she has potential—"Rose: "Wild and disrespecful? Who the hell are you anyway? Oursourced help?"Kirova: "Guardian Belikov is the Princess Lissa's guardian now, her sanctioned guardian."Rose: "You got cheap foreign labor to protect Lissa?

  Vampire Academy

• I set off, off to kill the man I love.

  Shadow Kiss

• Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream.

  Succubus Blues

• Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection."He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try."(Adrian)

  Bloodlines

• You…you got rid of that dress fast,"I pointed out between heavy breaths. "I thought you liked it." "I do like it,"he said. His breathing was as heavy as mine. "I love it."And then he took me to the bed.

  Vampire Academy

• Hey Mason, wipe the drool off your face. If you're going to think about me naked, do it on your own time."[...]"This is my time, Hathaway. I'm leading today's session." "Oh yeah?"I retorted. "Huh. Well, I guess this is a good time to think about me naked, then." "It's always a good a time to think about you naked,"added someone nearby, breaking the tension further.

  Vampire Academy

• A ghostly smile flickered across his face. "If you weren't so psychotic, you'd be fun to hang around." "Funny, I feel that way about you too."He didn't say anything else, but the smile grew, and he walked away.

  Vampire Academy

• Okay, God, I thought. Get me out of this and I’ll stop my half-assed church-going ways. You got me past a pack of Strigoi tonight. I mean, trapping that one between the doors really shouldn't have worked, so clearly you're on board. Let me get out of here, and I’ll...I don’t know. Donate Adrian’s money to the poor. Get baptized. Join a convent. Well, no. Not that last one.

  Blood Promise

• What was love, really? Flowers, chocolate, and poetry? Or was it something else? Was it being able to finish someone's jokes? Was it having absolute faith that someone was there at your back? Was it knowing someone so well that they instantly understood why you did the things you did—and shared those same beliefs?

  Last Sacrifice

• Yeah? Can you draw a skeleton riding a motorcycle with flames coming out of it? And I want a pirate hat on the skeleton. And a parrot on his shoulder. A skeleton parrot. Or maybe a ninja skeleton parrot? No, that would be overkill. But it'd be cool if the biker skeleton could be shooting some ninja throwing stars. That are on fire.

  Bloodlines

• If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.

  Vampire Academy

• It's okay,"I said soothingly. "You're just getting your stride back. Once you're up to full power, I'll go crack a rib or something so we can test it."She groaned. "The horrible part is that I don't think you're joking.

  Shadow Kiss

• Well, that depends, I suppose. I heard someone once say that men dance the same way they have sex. So, if you want everyone here to think you're the kind of guy who just sits around and—"He stood up. "Let's dance.

  Succubus Blues

• Wait. You think I'm going to die? That's why you slept with me?

  Shadow Kiss

• A gun. I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought.

  Last Sacrifice

• Relax, having kids is years away. But can you imagine? Your brains, my charm, our collective good looks... then add in the usual physical abilities dhampirs get. It's really not even fair to everyone else.

  The Fiery Heart

• Adrian, I'm on a date. Why are you here? On my car?

  The Golden Lily

• Are you sleepwalking?' A voice asked behind me. "I was testing dorm security,"I said. "It sucks.

  Shadow Kiss

• She was right about something else too,"Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to his voice that made me turn around."What's that?"I asked."That I do still love you."With that one sentence, everything in the universe changed.

  Last Sacrifice

• He sighed and then focused his eyes right on me. It was like drowning, drowning in seas of green. There was nothing in the world except for those eyes."I want to kiss you, Rose,"he said softly. "And I want you to want me too.

  Shadow Kiss

• I'll find you. There is no place in this world you can hide from me. I'm watching.Love, Dimitri

  Spirit Bound

• Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want.

  Last Sacrifice

• I wasn't fooled. He was avoiding looking at me. "There's nothing to talk about." "I knew you'd say that. Actually, it was a toss-up between that and 'I don't know what you're talking about.'"Dimitri sighed.

  Last Sacrifice

• I don't care if you say we can't be together. I don't care if you think I'm the most evil, unnatural creature walking on earth. You can think whatever you want, go whatever you want. I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless.

  The Indigo Spell

• I get in that kind of situation all the time, Comrade. It's not a big deal."Anger replaced my fear. I didn't like being treated like a child. "Stop calling me that. You don't even know what you're talking about." "Sure I do. I had to do a report on the R.S.S.R. last year.

  Vampire Academy

• Do not do that again,"he said stiffly."Don't kiss me back then,"I retorted.He stared at me for what seemed like forever. "I don't give 'Zen lessons' to hear myself talk. I don't give them because you're another student. I'm doing this to teach you control." "You're doing a great job,"I said bitterly.

  Frostbite

• Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know.

  Frostbite

• Did you mean it... that if Victor did tell...that you'd..."I couldn't finish. I couldn't bring myself to say the words have him killed."I don't have much influence in the upper levels of Moroi royalty, but I have plenty among the guardians who handle the dirty work in our world." "You didn't answer the question. If you'd really do it." "I'd do a lot of things to protect you, Roza.

  Shadow Kiss

• But when I touch you, your aura … it smolders. The colors deepen, it burns more intensely, the purple increases. Why? Why, Sydney?” He used that hand to pull me closer. “Why do you react that way if I don’t mean anything to you?” There was a desperation in his voice, and it was legitimate.

  The Indigo Spell

• I'm backing down now. I really do love you. That's why I'm doing this.

  Last Sacrifice

• Piece of Heaven?" "No, that other place I'm going to go to for thinking what I'm thinking.

  The Indigo Spell

• Sex had been amazing, but it wasn't a magical cure for everything. Damn. Somewhere along the way, I'd picked up common sense.

  Last Sacrifice

• Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you’ll find there isn’t anything you won’t do.

  The Fiery Heart

• You look too pretty to be useful." "Truer words were never spoken.

  Bloodlines

• The center will hold.” “How do you know?” “Because we are the center.

  The Fiery Heart

• But I couldn't help myself, couldn't help the way I felt as I recalled the bliss and rush of a vampire's bite.

  Vampire Academy

• Because I’ve got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding."“Why are they all high-calorie foods?

  The Indigo Spell

• He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.

  The Indigo Spell

• You're better than this. Better than whatever it is you're going to do now.

  Last Sacrifice

• Well, you can think what you want, so long as you remember - no matter how ordinary things seem between us - I'm still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy, evil or otherwise, ever will.

  The Indigo Spell

• I realized I’m in love. It's always been right in front of me.

  The Indigo Spell

• I know I’m not supposed to say this, but I love you.

  The Indigo Spell

• I’m not a warrior or a goddess,” I said at last.Adrian leaned closer. “As far as I’m concerned, you’re both.

  The Indigo Spell

• Everything about her has to do with me.

  The Indigo Spell

• Centrum permanebit.

  The Fiery Heart

• Do you love him?"There were only a few people in the world who could ask me such insanely personal questions without getting punched. Dimitri was one of them.

  Last Sacrifice

• Ah, well,ʺ said Abe, idly studying his fingertips. ʺI have it on good authority thereʹs going to be a new ‘gateʹ opening up soon over on the south side of the wall."The truth dawned on me. ʺOh lord. Youʹre the one whoʹs been doling out C4.ʺʺYou make it sound so easy,ʺ he said with a frown. ʺThat stuffʹs hard to get a hold of.

  Last Sacrifice

• I just rely on natural talent,"said Adrian, strolling up to the start of the Dragon's Lair. "When you have such a wealth of it to draw from, the danger comes from having too much.

  Bloodlines

• Vladimir did great things—so could she. Besides, they come first, right?" "Not always."I stared. I'd had they come first drilled into me since I was a child. It was what all guardians believed. Only the dhampirs who'd run away from their duty didn't subscribe to that. What he said was almost like treason."Sometimes, Rose, you have to know when to put yourself first.

  Shadow Kiss

• What's that?"he asked, when I stood beside him again."Halos,"I said with a grin. "For heavenly creatures like us." "That might be a stretch.

  Blood Promise

• No matter how long or how difficult, we will undo whatever that Moroi boy has done to you."I managed a wavering smile, tasting blood in my mouth. "You sure about that, Dad? Because he's done everything to me.

  The Fiery Heart

• And besides . . . I don’t want to leave you. Er, you guys.”He smiled, and it lit up his whole face. “Well, ‘we’ are certainly happy to hear that. Oh, and I’m also happy to watch our darling little love child dragon while you’re in St. Louis.”I grinned back.

  The Indigo Spell

• Vampires. Honestly, they're like children sometimes.

  Succubus Blues

• Sydney spent a lot of time on my bed these days.Unfortunately, it wasn't with me.

  The Fiery Heart

• When he finished, he drank from the cup. Everyone else did too, so I followed suit.And nearly choked to death.It was like fire in liquid form. It took every ounce of strength I had to swallow it and not spray it on those around me."Wh...what is this?"I asked, coughing.Viktoria grinned. "Vodka."I peered at the glass. "No, it isn't. I've had vodka before." "Not Russian vodka."Apparently not.

  Blood Promise

• Yet, it had been Dimitri’s gentleness and thoughtfulness mixed with that deadliness that made him so wonderful. The same hands that wielded stakes with such precision would carefully brush the hair out of my face. The eyes that could astutely spot any danger in the area would regard me wonderingly and worshipfully, like I was the most beautiful and amazing woman in the world.

  Blood Promise

• What hope is there?"I asked. "If even angels fall, what hope is there for the rest of us?

  Succubus Dreams

• How do you feel right now?" "I hurt like hell." "You'll feel worse tomorrow." "So?" "So, better get a jump on this while you still feel...not as bad." "What kind of logic is that?"I retorted.

  Vampire Academy

• Oh... Adrian, I've got one more favor to ask you. A big one." "Fondue?"he asked hopefully.

  The Indigo Spell

• Love fades. Mine has.

  Spirit Bound

• Things on the essential list: vodka, Nine Inch Nails, a steady supply of mortal men, and an all-purpose bitchy attitude.

• You did not just say that. I have a feeling we're on the verge of hugging and coming up with cute nicknames for each other.

  Shadow Kiss

• Wow,” said Adrian. He sat down on the bed and tested its bounciness, giving it a nod of approval. “This is amazing. What do you think, buttercup?”“I have no words,” I said honestly.He patted the spot beside him. “Want to try it out?

  The Indigo Spell

• You might not believe this, but there is no one like her at this school." "Oh I believe it,"I said, thinking back to the time Angeline had forgotten her locker's combination and tried to get into it with an axe.No one was really sure where she'd gotten it from.

  The Fiery Heart

• You know,"he said, "under normal circumstances, you inviting me to the bedroom would be the highlight of my day."I crossed my arms and sat on the bed. I did so out of simple fatigue, but a moment later, I was struck by what I was doing. This is where Adrian sleeps. I'm touching the covers he's wrapped in every night. What does he wear? Does he wear anything?I jumped up.

  The Indigo Spell

• What do you think Dimitri? Is this a good idea, Dimitri? Please give us your blessing so that we can fall down and worship you, Dimitri.

  The Golden Lily

• You know I love you, right?” The urge to kiss her goodbye was so strong that I almost broke our rules.She smiled, beautiful and golden in the late morning light. “Not as much as I love you.”“Oh, man. This is my dream come true: having an ‘I love you more’ debate. Here, I’ll start. I love you more. Your turn.”Sydney laughed and opened the door. “I’ve taken debate classes. You’d lose to my logic.

  The Fiery Heart

• It was a lame excuse, and I knew that wasn't the reason he was canceling. If he wanted to avoid me, I would have preferred he made up something about how he and the other guardians had to up Moroi security or practice top-secret ninja moves.

  Frostbite

• Wow. What'd he do to deserve that? Rescue orphans from a burning building? If so, you might want to make sure he didn't set the building on fire in the first place.

  Frostbite

• I don't care,"said Seth. "I would have done it. I would have sold my soul for you. You and me...I told you. Something's always going to keep us near each other...even if we aren't together.

  Succubus Heat

• Are you in a suit?' I managed at last, my voice choking up. 'You didn’t have to dress up for me.''Quiet, Sage,' he said. 'I’ll make the hilarious one-liners during this daring rescue.

  Silver Shadows

• It was impossible to get the Dimitri and Tasha thing out of my head, but at least packing and getting ready made sure I didn't devote 100 percent of my brain power to him. More like 95 percent.

  Frostbite

• Adrian was easily distractible by wacky topics and shiny objects.

  The Golden Lily

• Why on earth would you buy a car like this if you can't drive a stick? There are dozens of cars--new cars--that have automatic transmission. It'd be a million times easier."Adrian shrugged. "I like the color. It matches my living room.

  The Golden Lily

• You used nunchucks on a moose?"Wolfe got a haunted look in his eyes. "I used all sorts of things on that bastard.

  The Golden Lily

• Smiling, I cut across the quadrangle toward the commons. I felt better about life than I had in a very long time. We could do this, Lissa and me. We could do this together.

  Vampire Academy

• Too bad. Family members hit you by accident. Psychopathic whores tend to come back for more.

  Frostbite

• That's ridiculous."Especially the part about Christian being manly.

  Spirit Bound

• My nails dug into his back, and he trailed his lips down the edge of my chin, down the center of my neck. He kept going until he reached the bottom of the dress’s V-neck. I let out a small gasp, and he kissed all around the neckline, just enough to tease.

  The Indigo Spell

• God might work on mysterious ways, but hell worked on efficient ones.

  Succubus Shadows

• So they finally gave you the license to kill, about time.

  Spirit Bound

• I certainly hadn't expected to walk away from today's trip with joint custody of a miniature dragon.

  The Indigo Spell

• Somehow, Sydney had an internal clock that told her when time was up. I think it was part of her inherent ability to keep track of a hundred things at once. Not me. In these moments, my thoughts were usually focused on getting her shirt off and whether I’d get past the bra this time. So far, I hadn’t.

  The Fiery Heart

• Even now, despite Angeline's watchfulness, she'd occasionally oscillate between random topics, like how shepherd's pie wasn't a pie at all and why it was pointless for her to take class in typing when technology would eventually develop robot companions to do it for us.

  The Fiery Heart

• If not for me being stoned and clinging to a taco, it would have been terribly romantic.

  Succubus on Top

• What were you thinking?"I demanded once we were moving to the music. I was trying to ignore his hands. "Do you know how much trouble you may have gotten me in?"Adrian grinned. "Nah. They all feel bad for you. You'll achieve martyrdom after dancing with a mean, wicked vampire. Job security with the Alchemists.

  The Indigo Spell

• I wished the kiss could have gone on forever. Breaking the embrace, he ran a few fingers through my hair and down my cheek. He stepped back toward the door."I'll see you later, Roza" "At our next practice?"I asked. "We are starting those up again, right? I mean, you still have things to teach me." "Yes. Lots of things.

  Frostbite

• Aubrey, crouching on a nearby counter, watched me with squinty eyes, apparently pondering why anyone would willingly immerse themselves in water ever, let alone for extended periods of time.

  Succubus Blues

• For every bad thing in life, there are more good things to tip the balance.

  Succubus on Top

• Those words, that voice, had more power over me than any phantom ever could.

  The Ruby Circle

• I had a standing agreement with god. I'd agree to believe in him, barely, so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.

  Vampire Academy

• I've heard that the soul often recognizes truth when it hears it, even if the mind does not.

  Storm Born

• And after a while...I mean, how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that...well, some people have to die. My powers aren't a prescription you can get filled as needed.

  Shadow Kiss

• I shot up,now as angry and frusterated as him.I had a feeling if i stayed, we'd both snap. In and undertone, I murmured,"this isnt over.i won't give up on you." "I've given up on you,"he said back,voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine has.

  Spirit Bound

• Seth's quote from his book:"And if I only couldI'd make a deal with God and I'd get Him to swap our places"-"Running up that Hill"by Kate Bush

  Succubus Heat