Top 500 Richelle Mead Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “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

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

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

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

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

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

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157. “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.”

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158. “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.”

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

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160. “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.””

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161. “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

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

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163. “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

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

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

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

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

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

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169. “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.”

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

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

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172. “Cheaters, I thought.”

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173. “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

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

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

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

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

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178. “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.”

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

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180. “Carter leaned toward me and brushed the hair away from the side of my face. “Don’t look down then,” he whispered.”

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181. “I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.”

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

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183. “I haven’t even really tried to win you over, Roza. When I want to, I can be very persuasive.”

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184. “He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.”

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185. “You’re beautiful, Roza. So beautiful it hurts me.”

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186. “To Thetis, Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that. -Seth.”

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187. “There’s a big difference between death threats and love letters–even if the person writing the death threats still claims to actually love you. Of course, considering I once tried to kill someone I loved, maybe I had no right to judge.”

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188. “I lost track of day and night too. My time was divided into Dimitri and not-Dimitri. He was my world. When he wasn’t there, the moments were agony.”

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189. “Mmm. O positive, my favorite.”

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190. “I went to bed feeling melancholy, wishing I could have poured out all my fears and insecurities to my mom. Wasn’t that what normal mothers and daughters did?”

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191. “Well, you can think what you want, so long as you remember – no matter how ordinary things seem between us – I’m still here, still in love with you, and care about you more than any other guy, evil or otherwise, ever will.”

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192. “I’ve seen all I need to. I’m going to go drink now in a futile effort to wipe away the memory of this debacle.”

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193. “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.”

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194. “With Dimitri grinning, Rose complied, holding out her left hand for the rest of the table to see. It was a remarkable piece of work. A large, perfectly cut round diamond was set into a lacy square of platinum filigree that was edged in tiny blue opals. It was a statement ring if ever there was one, and a wholly unexpected choice.”

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195. “Don’t get caught up in fashion games. These kids probably think we’re old, nark conformists or something, but really, they’re just conforming in their own ways. They’re conforming to nonconformity.”

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

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197. “You need me? You yell. You want to leave? We go. I’ll get you out of here, no matter what.”

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198. “Bad things are always going to happen,” my father had told me in his last year. “There’s no way to avoid that. Our control comes in how we face them. Do we let them crush us, making us despondent? Do we face them unflinchingly and endure the pain? Do we outsmart them?”

— Richelle Mead

199. “Even when I was dizzy with vodka, that smile never failed to make my heart speed up.”

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200. “And than suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster.”

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