Top 500 Richelle Mead Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Never thought I’d see the day when you’d throw your arms around a vam – someone like me.”

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202. “Taking a deep breathe, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life. I walked away.”

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203. “Turning away, I stared at the long road winding off ahead of me. I sighed. This trip might take awhile. “Then start walking, Rose,” I muttered to myself. I set off, off to kill the man I loved.”

— Richelle Mead

204. “We were going to kill ourselves in trying to kill each other.”

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205. “He has no right to threaten my boyfriends. I’m eighteen. An adult. I don’t need his help. I can threaten my boyfriends myself.”

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206. “Did you know that it’s a lot harder to put organs back in the body than it is to get them out?”

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207. “There were drinks and food in full force, and some Moroi guy had a guitar out and was trying to impress girls with his musical skills – which were nonexistent. In fact, his music was so awful that he might have discovered a new way to kill Strigoi.”

— Richelle Mead

208. “It had to be one of the weirdest things in the universe that Lissa had never come close to suspecting my feelings for Dimitri but that Adrian had figured it out.”

— Richelle Mead

209. “Life, unfortunately, doesn’t seem to care what we want.”

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210. “What are you, Rose Hathaway? Are you real? You’re a dream within a dream. I’m afraid touching you will make me wake up. You’ll disappear.”

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211. “It’s Kahlua, Sage. Packed with sugar and coffee flavor.”

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212. “What If Following Her Heart Means Rose Could Lose Her Best Friend Forever?”

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213. “I needed her heart and mind as much as her body. I needed her, and her lack caused an ache in my chest as I drifted off to sleep.”

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214. “Rose and Dimitri moved almost as one entity, like a matched pair of wolfes or lions, both wary and deadly as they studied their surroundings, taking no detail or person for granted.”

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215. “Dmitri was at a total loss. It was a common reaction for people when I agreed to do something reasonable.”

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216. “Things die. But they don’t always stay dead. Believe me, I know.”

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217. “So many details came into focus. The shape of his lips, the line of his neck. “I’m not dangerous,” I breathed. He brought his face toward mine. “You are to me.” And somehow, against all reason, we were kissing. I closed my eyes, and the world around me faded.”

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218. “It’s Adrian Ivashkov logic. Don’t try to understand it. Just roll with it.”

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

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220. “If not for me being stoned and clinging to a taco, it would have been terribly romantic.”

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221. “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.”

— Richelle Mead

222. “See? Things are already looking promising.”

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223. “Aw you’d never hurt me. My face is too pretty. -Adrian Ivashkov.”

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

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225. “Tradition or not, I sometimes thought putting children on an old guy’s lap was already creepy enough. We didn’t need to mix alcohol into it.”

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226. “Rose laughed at that. “Oh, this I’ve got to see, comrade. Dimitri Belikov, badass god, installing a baby’s car seat.”

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227. “If someone like you showed up to abduct me, I’d let you.”

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228. “She might be unarmed, but Rose Hathaway was in possession of many weapons.”

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229. “People get too caught up in what they don’t have and get bogged down as a result. There’s joy in the present. It’s important to just make the most of the these moments we have. Keep an eye on the future, but don’t forget to enjoy NOW.”

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230. “Rose was so full of life and passion that sometimes she seemed more human than I was.”

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231. “When Love And Jealousy Collide On The Slopes, Winter Break Turns Deadly.”

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232. “Well, you’ve finally got a license to kill. It’s about time.”

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233. “I tried to dredge up the same reaction other girls had around Marcus, but nothing happened. No matter how hard I tried, I just didn’t have that same attraction His hair was too blond, I decided. And his eyes needed a little more green.”

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234. “And sometimes, if I was really, really lucky, he’d smile at me. A real smile, too – not the dry one that accompanied the sarcasm we tossed around so often. I didn’t want to admit it to anyone – not to Lissa, not even to myself – but some days, I lived for those smiles.”

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235. “I don’t think most people take honest well. They prefer the games. They want to believe the pretty lies.”

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236. “Just friends, just friends. Standing there in the bookstore, watching Seth walk away, I half wondered how anyone could still use that line. But I knew why, of course. It was used because people still believed it. Or at least they wanted to.”

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

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238. “I realized I’m in love. It’s always been right in front of me.”

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239. “I have it on good authority that Victor’s going to have car trouble. Also that Robert really likes Cheerios, so if you want some, you’re out of luck. He doesn’t seem like the sharing type.”

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240. “Don’t you know that I’d lie with you in the groves, under the light of the moon? That I’d defy the laws of gods and men for you?”

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241. “Aubrey, crouching on a nearby counter, watched me with squinty eyes, apparently pondering why anyone would willingly immerse themselves in water ever, let alone for extended periods of time.”

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242. “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.”

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243. “What about you, Sage? I know we don’t have to worry about you violating the dress code. Did you have fun at your Alchemist spa this weekend?”

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244. “You’re a solid person, Sage. You’re easy on the eyes, if a little skinny, and your ability to memorize useless information is going to totally hook in some guy.”

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245. “Wow. What’d he do to deserve that? Rescue orphans from a burning building? If so, you might want to make sure he didn’t set the building on fire in the first place.”

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246. “You make a joke out of everything. Life’s too painful not to.”

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247. “Oh, and I’m also happy to watch our darling little love child dragon while you’re in St. Louis.”

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248. “What were good and evil, really, but stupid categories? Stupid categories that restricted people and punished or rewarded them based on how they responded to their own natures, natures they really didn’t have any way to control.”

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249. “You know, I might miss some of your witticisms when you’re gone, but one thing I won’t miss? Your overwhelming sense of melodrama and despair. It’s too much even for me.”

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250. “Feel guilty. Mourn this. But move on. Don’t let it destroy you. Forgive yourself.”

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