Richelle Mead Quotes (212 Quotes)

Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass

Study's overrated. Just find someone smart to copy off. -Adrian to Lissa

Everyone has light around them, except for you. You have shadows.

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

Don?t worry now about what you can?t change. Rest when you can so you?ll be ready for tomorrow?s battles

I supposed if you were going to make a career of breaking laws, you might as well know them.

So much grief, so much anger. So unlike the usual Adrian.

Because it's simple, I love you, and I don't want to keep pretending like I don't. -Rose to Dimitri

My cigarettes and I are going outside. At least they show me respect.

You aren't afraid of throwing yourself in the path of danger, but you're terrified of letting anyone in.

I felt my heart breaking all over again. Why? Why had this happened to us? Why was the universe so cruel?

Yeah, I was at the Masquerade of the Damned.

I stopped. She was bleeding after all. Perfect lines crossed her wrists, not near any crucial veins, but enough to leave wet red tracks across her skin. She hadn;t hit her veins when she did this; death hadn't been her goal.

What do you mean it wasn't anything? Didn't the earth move or the planets align or something? -Rose to Lissa on sleeping with Aaron

Because it's our duty to God to protect the rest of humanity from evil creatures of the night.

Surely I must be a princess in an enchanted sleep. Any day now, this dream-no, nightmare would end, and I'd get my prince and happy ending.

He's also pretty good looking. Okay more than good looking. He's hot-like, the kind of hot that makes you stop walking in the street and get hit by traffic.

This isn't a Christmas special! This is my life. In the real world, miracles and goodness just don't happen.

Eerily, the coronation was kind of a reverse of Tatiana?s funeral. What was the old saying? The queen is dead. Long live the queen

I think we got in more trouble with Aunt Tasha,? said Christian. ?She was kind of pissed off that we didn?t tell her what was going on. I think she probably wanted to blow up the statues herself.

Some rules are bigger than the universe.

But it's believed the soul can stay on earth for three to forty days after death. It eventually recieves temporary judgment that sends it on from this world to heaven or hell-although no one will truly experience either until the actual Judgment Day, when the soul and body are reunited to live out eternity as one.

Nah, you always look good. As for me … well, it's hard to explain. The auras are getting to me. There's so much sorrow around here. You can't even begin to understand. It radiates from everyone on a spiritual level. It's overwhelming. It makes your dark aura downright cheerful.

You can't save everyone, though God knows you try.

I, had an excellent instructor. One that you currently have locked up. If you want to talk about skills going to waste, then go look in your own jail.

You can live a lifetime in two years.

If you try to turn me against Lissa one more time the stories are going to be about you bleeding because I'll have ripped your throat out!

Yes, Roza. I did want you. I still do. I wish... we could be together. -Dimitri to Rose on their relationship

Bound by Love, But sworn to Kill...

That's what I was supposed to say...

I secretly wondered if Dimitri's problem might be that he was jealous. He hadn't pulled Lissa aside to yell at her. The thought made me slightly happy, but then I remembered my earlier curiosity about why Dimitri had even wandered by.

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

Eighteen, and already you've been accused of murder, aided felons, and acquired a death count higher than most guardians will ever see. I couldn't be prouder.

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

Sometimes talking to you is like talking to myself: pretty damned annoying.

Culinary science? You elected culinary science? That's the most brainless class ever. -Rose to Christian

None of you appreciate me. Why is it so hard to believe that I could make a real contribution in these dark rimes?

You might be surrounded by clouds, but you'll be like sunshine to me.

If I could dream, I know I'd dream about you.I'd dream about the way you smell and how your dark hair feels like silk between my fingers. I'd dream about the smoothness of your skin and the fierceness of your lips when we kiss. Without dreams,I have to be content with my own imagination-which is almost as good. I can picture all those things perfectly.

You could change the quorum law if you wanted, you sanctimonious bitch!

I'm really not good with impulse control.

You are so beautiful, it hurts me sometimes. -Dimitri to Rose

Don't beat yourself up over what you could have or should have done. The past is gone. Move on to the future.

Then, I heard the pounding again-and worse, my whole bed shook violently. Someone was kicking it. Opening my eyes again, I turned and found myself staring into Yeva's shrewd dark eyes. If Sydney had met many dhampirs like Yeva, I could understand why she thought our race were minions of hell.

I'd accepted a while ago that there were too many reasons for me to even think about him romantically anymore. Every once in a while, I slipped a little and kind of wished he would too. It'd have been nice to know that he still wanted me, that I still drove him crazy. Studying him now, I realized he might not ever slip because I didn't drive him crazy anymore. It was a depressing thought.

We can't stop living because other people are dead.

Everything I?d been taught about eluding someone came rushing back to my head. What I wanted to do more than anything was look around and see if I had a follower, but that would have definitely attracted attention.

Impossible situations are our specialty.

Thats why your doing this? Because Lissa told you to?

Dierdre the counselor must not have had much of a life, because she scheduled our next appointment on a Sunday. I wasn't so thrilled about it, seeing as it wasn't just my day off-it was also the day my friends had off. Orders were orders, however, so I grudgingly showed up.