Richelle Mead Quotes

“Despite his cynical exterior, he had a good heart-and Lissa owned most of it.”

Source: The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel

Heart Despite Cynical Exterior Good Heart Blood Promise Christian Ozera Lissa Dragomir

Book:Vampire Academy: Blood Promise

Source: Vampire Academy: Blood Promise

“Propriety's never been Adrian's strong suit.”

Strong Suits Propriety

“I can't shut my brain off. It's like a hamster wheel." ~ Justin”

Source: The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel

I Can Brain Wheels Justin Hamsters Hamster Wheel

Author:Richelle Mead

“Wise men don't need concrete answers. By definition, they need wisdom." ~ Geraki”

Men Needs Answers Wise Definitions Concrete

Author:Richelle Mead

“Even now, despite Angeline's watchfulness, she'd occasionally oscillate between random topics, like how shepherd's pie wasn't a pie at all and why it was pointless for her to take class in typing when technology would eventually develop robot companions to do it for us.”

Class Technology Despite Companion Pie Topics Robots Pointless Shepherds Typing Watchfulness Angeline Dawes

Author:Richelle Mead

“Is Hopper celebrating with you?” “Hopper? Why would—” My mouth snapped shut for a few moments. “Oh. I, uh, kind of forgot about him.”

Kind Moments Mouths Celebrate

“Well, no one treats me like a full-fledged royal, said Lissa, turning back to the dresses. No reason to act like one now. Show me your straps and short-sleeves.”

Source: The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel

Wells Said Reason Shows Treats Dresses No Reason Show Me Royal Sleeves

“We're pieces on a gameboard, Dr. March, and some of us are more powerful than others. You. Me. Her. We're the ones the gods want. We're the ones they're fighting over.”

Source: Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel

Want Fighting Powerful Pieces March Drs

Author:Richelle Mead

“I couldn’t help it,” I said, knowing how lame that sounded. It was as bad as Angeline’s “it’s not my fault” mantra.”

Said Helping Knowing Faults Mantras Lame

“So,” I said at last, staring at my hands. “How’s, uh, your car?” “I left it out on the street. Figured it’ll be fine there while I’m gone.”

Source: The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel

Said Hands Lasts Left Gone Streets Car Fine Staring Sydney Sage Sydrian Indigo Spell

“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. Was this how everyone in love felt? Did they all cling tightly to their beloved and wake up terrified in the middle of the night, afraid of being alone? Was that an inevitable way of life when you loved so deeply? Or was it just those of us who walked on a precipice who lived in such panic?”

Source: The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel

Way Persons Night Felt Middle Losing Wake Up Inevitable Beloved Panic Terrified Middle Of The Night Precipice

Author:Richelle Mead

“You’ll know her by a crown of stars and flowers, and then when you take her to your bed and claim her, you will swear your loyalty to me.”

Knows Stars Flower Bed Claims Loyalty Crowns Swear

Book:The Immortal Crown: An Age of X Novel

Source: The Immortal Crown: An Age of X Novel

“So that's how you're going to fix the family problem. Little Dragomirs. Good idea.”

Littles Ideas Problem Good Ideas Vampire Academy Family Problems Last Sacrifice Christian Ozera Lissa Dragomir

Book:Vampire Academy: Last Sacrifice

Source: Vampire Academy: Last Sacrifice

“I can understand bitchiness in any language.”

I Can Language

Book:Gameboard of the Gods: Age of X

Source: Gameboard of the Gods: Age of X

“Our gazes locked, so much passing between us. In those moments, I wasn't in a tent with him, on the run from those who regarded us as villains. There was no murderer to catch, no Strigoi trauma to overcome. There was just him and me and the feelings that had burned between us for so long.”

Long Moments Feelings Running Overcoming Trauma Passing Passings Villain Locked Burned Murderer Tents

“Adrian tipped my face up toward his and kissed me. Like always, the world around me stopped moving. No, the world became Adrian, only Adrian.”

Source: Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel

World Faces Moving Indigo Spell

“Maybe I was in love, but I was still me, after all.”

Source: The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel

Stills

“For a moment his eyes locked onto me with an intensity that left me breathless.”

Source: The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel

Moments Eye Left His Eyes Intensity Locked Breathless

Book:The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel

Source: The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel

“Did Belikov bend the rules of time and space to get here so fast? He can do that, right?”

Can Do Space Time And Space Sydney Sage Sydrian

“I spent the rest of the day doing little more than that. I skipped dinner. I shed a few tears. But mostly, I just sat on my bed thinking and growing more and more depressed. I also discovered the only thing worse than imagining Dimitri and Tasha together was remembering when he and I had been together. He would never touch me again like that, never kiss me again.”

Source: The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel

Thinking Littles Together Remember Growing Tears Bed Kissing Dinner Sat Shed Kiss Me Touch Me Dimitri

Book:Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel

Source: Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel

“I'm guessing whatever 'ways' you have in mind aren't Jill-appropriate either." "Put your books away and I'll show you.”

Way Mind Book Shows Appropriate Guessing Sydney Sage Sydrian

“You can put on as many airs as you want, but in the end, that dress is the same as you: an old, cheap design dressed up to look like its worth more than it is.”

Source: The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel

Want Looks Ends Air Design Dresses Dressed Up

Book:Gameboard of the Gods: Age of X

Source: Gameboard of the Gods: Age of X

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

Ifs Said Cutting Rose Tattoo Dimitri Dimitri Rose

Author:Richelle Mead

“You never really realize how many people care about you until they all turn out to support you.”

People Care Turns Realizing Support Support You

Book:Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel

Source: Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel

“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.”

Way Acting Stupid Higher Standards Higher Standards Sonya Sonya Karp

“Dimitri: "Don't look at me like that." Rose: "Like what?" Dimitri: "You've got this look on your face that says you think I'm delusional, but you're too nice to say anything.”

Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

Thinking Looks Faces Nice Rose Your Face Say Anything Look At Me Delusional Dimitri Too Nice

Author:Richelle Mead

“Some part of you will always ... fight to cling to life and experience all it has. That's why you're so reckless in the things you do. You don't hold back your feelings, your passion, your anger. It makes you remarkable. It makes you dangerous”

Feelings Fighting Passion Dangerous Rose Remarkable Reckless Rose Hathaway

“It was something of a mystery how a couple of teenage girls had managed to escape detection for two years, especially when one of them was a privileged Moroi princess and the other a delinquent dhampir with a disciplinary file so long that it broke school records.”

Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

Years Long Two School Girl Records Mystery Couple Broke Two Years Princess Privileged Teenage Files Teenage Girl Detection Delinquents

Book:Vampire Academy: The Untold Stories

Source: Vampire Academy: The Untold Stories

“As I’d observed, it was clear that Rose was willing to do anything and fight anyone to protect her friend. I admired that—I admired that a lot—but it didn’t stop me from striking out to block her.”

Fighting Clear Willing Protect Rose Block Striking Out

Book:Vampire Academy 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: Vampire Academy 10th Anniversary Edition

“Me? I didn’t believe in hopeless.”

Believe Hopeless

Author:Richelle Mead

“Adrian: I can visit people in their dreams. Christian: Stop. I can feel there is a comment coming on about how women already dream about you. I just ate, you know.”

People Knows Feels I Can Dream Christian Comment Lissa Dragomir

Book:Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel

Source: Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel

“You guys are so caught up in your polished images and your passive-aggressive comments that no one ever comes right out and says anything. Well, I'm going to.”

Wells Guy Caught Comment Aggressive Passive Say Anything Caught Up Polished Passive Aggressive

Book:Gameboard of the Gods: Age of X

Source: Gameboard of the Gods: Age of X

“You and I have never liked each other, Rose. If I’ve got to kill someone, it might as well be you.”

Ifs Wells Might Rose Be You Christian Ozera

“I won’t lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name book can kind of make your heart stop. “I’m no expert,” I began, choosing my words carefully. “Well—actually, I am. And I’m pretty sure there are certain things we have to do before you need to be reading that.”

Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

Needs Wells Heart Kind Book Lying Certain Reading Names Rooms Seeing Baby Walking Experts Girlfriend Your Girlfriend Sydrian

“Escape plan number seventeen," I told her. "Run away and open a juice stand in Fresno." "Why Fresno?" "Sounds like the kind of place people drink a lot of juice.”

Source: The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel

People Kind Running Sound Numbers Plans Drink Running Away Juice Seventeen Sydney Sage Sydrian

Author:Richelle Mead

“He's been out for a while," she said. "You ready to take a break?" Hopper could exist in this living form or be transformed into a small statue, which helped avoid uncomfortable questions when people came by. Only she could transform him though. "Yeah. He keeps trying to eat my paints. And I don't want him to watch me kiss you goodbye.”

People Want Trying Said Form Watches Break Ready Kissing Yeah Paint Uncomfortable Goodbye Transformed Statues Keep Trying Want Him Watch Me

“Somehow, Sydney had an internal clock that told her when time was up. I think it was part of her inherent ability to keep track of a hundred things at once. Not me. In these moments, my thoughts were usually focused on getting her shirt off and whether I’d get past the bra this time. So far, I hadn’t.”

Source: The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel

Thinking Moments Past Ability Hundred Track Focused Clock Shirts Internals Inherent My Thoughts Sydney Bras Sydney Sage Shirt Off Sydrian

Author:Richelle Mead

“VAMPIRE ACADEMY: Rose- See something you like? Dimitri- Get dressed. LAST SACRIFICE: Rose- See something you like? Dimitri- Lots”

Lasts Sacrifice Rose Vampire Academy Dimitri Vampire Academy Last Sacrifice Dimitri Rose

Author:Richelle Mead

“His warmth was all around me, as was his love, and again, I felt that completeness. I had that missing piece of my word back. The soul that complemented mine. My match. My equal. Not only that, I had my life back -my own life. I would protect Lissa, I would serve, but I was finally my own person.”

Persons Soul Felt My Own Pieces Missing Mines Protect Equal Warmth His Love My Own Life Completeness Missing Piece

Author:Richelle Mead

“Rose, nothing in this world could make me hate you." "Not even trying to bring my ex-boyfriend back from the dead?”

World Trying Hate This World Rose Hate You Exes Rose Hathaway Ex Boyfriend

“Dimitri seemed like the kind of guy you could throw into the wilderness and he would survive off anything.”

Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

Kind Guy Wilderness Dimitri

“If someone had asked who could stage the best intervention with a crazy woman who had formerly been an undead monster, Sydney Sage would have been my last guess.”

Source: Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel

Ifs Has Beens Lasts Crazy Stage Monsters Sage Intervention Sydney Undead Sydney Sage Crazy Women

“Sydney might not be an expert in personal relationships but puzzles were familiar territory.”

Source: Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel

Might Familiar Experts Territory Puzzles Sydney Personal Relationships

“His fingers never ceased to amaze me. They could break a man's neck, bandage a wound, and slide sensually across bare skin.”

Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

Men Break Skins Fingers Wounds Necks Slides Bandages Bare Skin

“I loved you and you destroyed me. You took my heart and ripped it up. You might as well have staked me.”

Source: Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection

Wells Heart Might My Heart Destroyed Ripped I Loved You Last Sacrifice