Quotes from Richelle Mead

That was nothing. I've talked myself out of much worse.

But really, I just had to face the truth: My boyfriend was insanely sexy, vampire or not, and I couldn't keep my hands off him.

I hope you had an entertaining time following me around." I took my keys out. "You should be a reality show," he said. "It's that good. And you know, I might be a totally unstable former assassin, but man. You manage to shock even me.

It didn't seem possible that outside the sanctity of this moonlit car was a world we had to hide from, a world that wanted to tear us apart.

Oh, Rose. You are young. You've barely lived. Everyone thinks their first love is the only one they'll ever have.

It goes against every rule in the universe.' To my surprise, she touched the small gold cross around her neck. 'Some rules are bigger than the universe.

The poem's called 'Love Is Enough.' As long as we're together, that's how we'll be. No trembling. No faltering. We're unstoppable.

Why? It doesn't hurt you or anything. I told you I won't bother you if you don't want me to. And if you do, well, I'm all about that. So what's it matter if I just love you from afar?" I didn't entirely know. "Because . . . because you can't!

It's Jill," said Eddie grimly. "She's missing.

I had never thought I could love another person this much. I also never thought I'd live in such fear of losing another person.

I should have stayed by Jill's side. That was my job, right?

Heaven? Probably not with my behaviors.

That's all that matters, Sage-Ivashkov. Well, that and me having to put the smackdown on Castile if he doesn't finally get his act together with Jill.

Don't look like that. Everything's going to be okay. The center will hold." "How do you know?" "Because we are the center.

in a great show of self-control, I stopped myself from telling him to fuck off.

If I had learned anything about life and love, it was that they were tenuous things that could end at any moment. Caution was essential—but not at the cost of wasting your life. I decided I wasn't going to waste it now.

No amount of alcohol or any illegal substance would make me touch him.

And as I did it, it was like pierc­ing my own heart at the same time.

So amazingly, agonizingly sexy that it's a wonder I can get anything done when all I ever think about is the taste of your lips and the touch of your fingertips on my skin and the way your legs feel when I—

Is he … is Dimitri a Strigoi?" Mason hesitated only a moment, like he was afraid to answer me, and then—he nodded. My heart shattered. My world shattered. You will lose what you value most.… It hadn't been me that Rhonda was talking about. It hadn't even been Dimitri's life. What you value most. It had been his soul.

There was one bed.

Promises. I was drowning in Promises

Christian stretched out beside her and pulled her close.

I was going to ruin everything, right here and right now. I'm really not good with impulse control.