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

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