Quotes from Richelle Mead

People get too caught up in what they don't have and get bogged down as a result. There's joy in the present. It's important to just make the most of the these moments we have. Keep an eye on the future, but don't forget to enjoy NOW.

Eddie I'm not going to claim to be any expert in romance, but even I can tell that you're crazy about Jill." He promptly looked away, though his blush betrayed him. "That's not true.

Work? Come on, Sage. Go buy a bikini and enjoy the pool while you're hanging around.

Adrian took a few steps toward me. "Not bad, Sage. I think you just scared old man Mazur." I felt a smile of my own begin to form. "I don't know about that, but it felt kind of good." "You should back talk people more often," he said. We grinned at each other, and as he regarded me fondly, I felt that same queasy feeling return.

Dimitri: She might be wild and disrespectful, but if she has potential— Rose: "Wild and disrespecful? Who the hell are you anyway? Oursourced help?

Dad, I've always made it a rule in my life not to pick fights with children, cute animals or ignorant old men. I will, however, make an exception for you if you ever touch or insult my wife again.

This isn't a real marriage." "Not according to the state of Nevada," I said cheerfully. "We've got the paperwork to prove it. Get us a laptop, and we can all look at the wedding pictures together.

You got me a 'congratulations on getting out of re-education' gift?

Then, as one hand tightened on me and his other ran gently over my hair, I noticed something. He didn't smell right.

I was so awash in sensory overload that I was caught completely unaware when he did push me away

You don't know your father, do you?" I shook my head. "No. All I know is he must have had wicked cool hair." Dimitri glanced up, and his eyes swept me. "Yes. He must have.

Mister Thorn, something tells me you could sell salvation to a priest.

Everyone wanted what she couldn't have.

Was Deirdre right about me purposely wanting relationships that were impossible?

History is important because it teaches us about past. And by learning about the past, ypu come to understand the present, so that you may make educated decisions about the future.

I slept with her because she was hot and wanted me. Maybe we're dealing with the supernatural, but I'm still human.

Can't you get me some swank bachelor's pad like Keith has downtown so I can party with all the rich vacationers? Drinking alone is sad and pathetic. I need people. Even human people.

Don't cut it," he said gruffly. "But no one'll see my tattoos if I don't." "Wear it up." -Dimitri, Rose, Dimitri

All those other flings I've had are just ashes in the wind, scattered and forgotten. But you . . . you're the real thing. The fire that keeps burning in my life. You're the one. There's no one else I feel this connected to. And if I could do all those things, stay with you, make love—with the lights on—tell you everything that weighs on me, I would.

Bless you, daugher of man,

He froze, and it was one of those rare moments when Adrian Ivashkov was caught totally and completely off guard. "Did you know," he said slowly, "that Victor Dashkov is sitting on your bed?" "Yeah," I said. "It was kind of a shock to us too.

You got some cheap foreign labor to protect Lissa?

A girl just asked for SAT scores good enough to get her into Yale. I think she was nine.

I'm going to just go on loving you, even if it's hopeless." -Adrian-