Quotes from Richelle Mead

Nothing will get you anywhere with me," I exclaimed. "I don't know about that." He put on an introspective look that was both unexpected and intriguing. "You're not as much of a lost cause as she was. I mean, with her, I had to overcome her deep, epic love with a Russian warlord. You and I just have to overcome hundreds of years' worth of deeply ingrained prejudice and taboo between our two races. Easy.

Love is..." An old memory with Adrian came back to me, and some of the turbulent emotion I always carried within me these days welled up in my chest. It was stupid, feeling so lovesick when he'd been gone less than a day, but I couldn't get him or the ways he described love out of my head. "... a flame in the dark. A breath of warmth on a winter's night. A star that guides you home.

You can't fool me, comrade. You want to put on a cowboy hat and keep lawless bank robbers in line.

Books were a lot less messy than orgasms.

I thought Alchemists avoided alcohol the same way they do primary colors.

When I look into his eyes, I could see without a doubt that he loved me more than anyone else in the world, that I was his salvation, the same way that he was mine.

?Who?s a spirit user?? said Robert. ?Former spirit user,? said Victor, ?She became a Strigoi to get away from it.? ?Yes . . . always a lure to that . . . kill to live, live to kill. Immortality and freedom from these chains, but oh, what a loss . . .? said Robert.

I saw endless depths of brown, the depths I'd fallen into so many times. No red rings. Dimitri...was not a Strigoi. And he was weeping.

But what I found most interesting was that Aaron had apparently found a way to pass the time without her. Beside him, holding his hand, was a Moroi girl who looked about eleven but had to be older, unless he'd become a pedophile during our absence.

Christ," I exclaimed. "We cannot roadtrip to Paris!

Just friends, just friends. Standing there in the bookstore, watching Seth walk away, I half wondered how anyone could still use that line. But I knew why, of course. It was used because people still believed it. Or at least they wanted to.

Sage!" he called. "You have got to see this." Eddie and I reached the next green and stared in astonishment. Then I burst out laughing. We had reached Dracula's Castle. (...) I couldn't stop laughing. Adrian and Eddie looked at me as though they'd never seen me before. "I don't think I've ever heard her laugh," Eddie told him. "Certainly not the reaction I was expecting," mused Adrian. "I'd been counting on abject terror, judging from past Alchemist behaviour. I didn't think you liked vampires.

Love doesn't stop people from betraying each other

Only what?" I asked. I could barely hear my own voice. He turned his gaze back to me, firm and unflinching. "Only… more human." And that was it. All the anger and sorrow vanished. There was nothing in me. Nothing at all. I was empty. "Get out," I said.

Letter to Rose from Strigoi Dimitri. Delivered to Rose after her return from Russia and her quest to Kill Dimitir, which she thought she completed. "You forgot another lesson: Never turn your back until you know your enemy is dead. Looks like we'll have to go over the lesson again next time I see you- which will be soon Love, D.

Love and Loyalty, run deeper than blood." Love that quote even though I haven't read the book.

My heart shatters. My world shatters. you will lose what you value most. It wasn't my life or even Dimitri's life. what you value most It was his soul.

Wanting and needing are two different things.

We're the same! Even Sonya says we are. We've always been the same, and we're both acting the same stupid way now! We hold ourselves to higher standards than everyone else.

Why did you become romantically involved with such a foul creature?…….. Because he's wonderful and sensitive and funny. Because we bring out the best in each other and are better people because of our love. Because when we're together, I feel like I understand my place in the world.

Have you ever wanted to put on a Santa suit?" "I have always wanted to do that," said Carter gravely.

Hope implies that you think you have a chance at something.

I was testing dorm security," I said. "It sucks." - Rose

I also have a feeling your mother's going to have a very ugly conversation with me." – Dimitri