Top 500 Richelle Mead Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “We’re all in charge of our own lives – and we have to live with the consequences of the choices we make.”

— Richelle Mead

102. “Rose, do you think I’d do anything that would hurt you.- Dimitri to Rose.”

— Richelle Mead

103. “Are you some kind of mutant human? Like a fire user? And I use mutant as a compliment, you know. I wouldn’t think less of you.”

— Richelle Mead

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

— Richelle Mead

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

— Richelle Mead

106. “My heart shattered. My world shattered.”

— Richelle Mead

107. “Don’t worry, I won’t bite. At least not in the way you’re afraid of.”

— Richelle Mead

108. “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 the next time I see you – which will be soon. Love, D.”

— Richelle Mead

109. “Emerald green eyes studied us from a face that could have been sculpted by one of the classical artists I so admired. Shocked, I dismissed the comparison as soon as it popped into my head. This was a vampire, after all. It was ridiculous to admire him the way I would some hot human guy.”

— Richelle Mead

110. “You can’t force love, I realized. It’s there or it isn’t. If it’s not there, you’ve got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you’ve got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.”

— Richelle Mead

111. “Well, centrum means center,” said Jackie. “Permanebit is a future tense verb. ‘Remains’ is one translation. Or maybe ‘endures.’ Together it’d be something like, ‘the center will endure.’” I jerked my head up. “Hold,” I whispered, my voice cracking. “The center will hold.” Sydney’s last words. Not for Eddie, but for me.”

— Richelle Mead

112. “She felt so much emotionally, she would say, that a physical outlet – physical pain – was the only way to make her internal pain go away. It was the only way she could control it.”

— Richelle Mead

113. “I know I’m not supposed to say this, but I love you.”

— Richelle Mead

114. “If your eyes weren’t open, you wouldn’t know the difference between dreaming and waking.”

— Richelle Mead

115. “Don’t take the high ground and assume you already know what you’ll do. The truth is, when it comes to someone you love, you’ll find there isn’t anything you won’t do.”

— Richelle Mead

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

— Richelle Mead

117. “Yes, I – I think I love her. Is that nuts?”

— Richelle Mead

118. “If I let myself love you, I won’t throw myself in front of her. I’ll throw myself in front of you.”

— Richelle Mead

119. “I was so tired of being told reasonable, practical things whenever something went wrong with my life.”

— Richelle Mead

120. “You destroy my life then feed me inspirational philosophy.”

— Richelle Mead

121. “Mistress, I have never asked anything of you in my servitude. But now, I beg you this: do not make me keep passing these adolescent sentiments back and forth all night.”

— Richelle Mead

122. “You are an exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you’re less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyone – not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffee – push you around.”

— Richelle Mead

123. “How do you say goodbye to someone who isn’t exactly gone.”

— Richelle Mead

124. “If you touch me, I said pleasantly, “I’ll provide you with the ability to see if you can heal yourself. Then we’d see how bad ass you really are.””

— Richelle Mead

125. “I crossed my arms over my chest. “Are you lost, little girl? The elementary school’s over on west campus.” A pink flush spread over her cheeks. “Don’t you ever touch me again. You screw with me, I’ll screw you right back.” Oh man, what an opening that was.”

— Richelle Mead

126. “Wanting and needing are two different things.”

— Richelle Mead

127. “Look, don’t get me wrong. I worship the ground this guy walks on. I’m excited to meet him tonight. I’m dying to meet him tonight. If he wanted to carry me off and make me his love slave, I’d do it, so long as I got advance copies of his books.”

— Richelle Mead

128. “It’s easy to want peace and love in hypothetical situations – then reality sets in, and sometimes we have to do what’s ugly.”

— Richelle Mead

129. “Rose is in red, But never in blue, Sharp as a thorn, Fights like one too.”

— Richelle Mead

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

— Richelle Mead

131. “Immortals are, by definition, immortal. End of story.”

— Richelle Mead

132. “I know how devastated you must be to miss me, but leave a message, and I’ll try to ease your agony.”

— Richelle Mead

133. “Everything’s about my personal entertainment. The world is my stage. Keep it up- you’re becoming a star performer in the show.”

— Richelle Mead

134. “Cheaters, I thought.”

— Richelle Mead

135. “By the way, my name’s Rose Hathaway. I’m seventeen years old, training to protect and kill vampires, in love with a completely unsuitable guy, and have a best friend whose weird magic could drive her crazy. Hey, no one said high school was easy.”

— Richelle Mead

136. “I know what love is, Mom. I’ve had love that burns in every fiber of my being, that drives me to be a better person and empowers me through each moment of the day. If you’d ever had something like that, you’d hold on to it with every bit of strength you had.”

— Richelle Mead

137. “You’re burned into my mind forever. There is nothing, nothing in this world that will ever change that.”

— Richelle Mead

138. “Never thought my biggest cheerleader would be someone who thought I was evil and unnatural.”

— Richelle Mead

139. “My boyfriend was insanely sexy, vampire or not, and I couldn’t keep my hands off him.”

— Richelle Mead

140. “My wife, ladies and gentlemen. Beauty, brains, and now brawn.”

— Richelle Mead

141. “I won’t lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name book can kind of make your heart stop.”

— Richelle Mead

142. “I told you before, we’re the center,” she said. “And the center will hold.”

— Richelle Mead

143. “I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.”

— Richelle Mead

144. “We take everything for granted, but when I’m with Angeline, I see the world through new eyes. She makes my world better. It’s why she’s so great.”

— Richelle Mead

145. “I didn’t think my day could get any worse until my best friend told me she might be going crazy. Again.”

— Richelle Mead

146. “Conversation was irrelevant. Only pie mattered.”

— Richelle Mead

147. “Bound by Love, But sworn to Kill...”

— Richelle Mead

148. “My nails dug into his back, and he trailed his lips down the edge of my chin, down the center of my neck. He kept going until he reached the bottom of the dress’s V-neck. I let out a small gasp, and he kissed all around the neckline, just enough to tease.”

— Richelle Mead

149. “Yeah, that’s exactly what I want. To help my girlfriend get her old boyfriend back.”

— Richelle Mead

150. “It was a lame excuse, and I knew that wasn’t the reason he was canceling. If he wanted to avoid me, I would have preferred he made up something about how he and the other guardians had to up Moroi security or practice top-secret ninja moves.”

— Richelle Mead