Top 500 Richelle Mead Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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.”

— Richelle Mead

352. “If you wanted to remold people, you had to break them down first.”

— Richelle Mead

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353. “Adrian: I find prostitutes vastly important. Nathan Ivashkov: Well. How refreshing to see that things haven’t changed.”

— Richelle Mead

354. “I bet you never thought the hardest part of finding your ’savior? would be getting her mom to let her stay out past curfew.”

— Richelle Mead

355. “I’m really not good with impulse control.”

— Richelle Mead

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

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357. “The Guardians wouldn’t abandon the last Dragomir. And I wouldn’t have abandoned Lissa even if there were a million Dragomirs.”

— Richelle Mead

358. “The guy that’s going to kick your ass for hurting her.”

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359. “Adrian’s new research partner stepped through the door, and I knew the uneasy peace we’d just established in Palm Springs was about to shatter. Dimitri Belikov had arrived.”

— Richelle Mead

360. “Yeah, I was at the Masquerade of the Damned.”

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361. “Who was I to do this? I was Adrian Ivashkov. And I was about to kick some ass.”

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362. “My hatred notwithstanding, I had to admit Dimitri Beli-whatever was pretty smart.”

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363. “You can live a lifetime in two years.”

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364. “I thought Alchemists avoided alcohol the same way they do primary colors.”

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

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366. “I don’t know, but I think it’s going to be good.”

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367. “And here I thought you had a soft spot for reckless young girls.”

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368. “Funny how someone telling you not to do something can talk you into it.”

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369. “Once I was satisfied I knew it, I handed it to Adrian and shot him a hopeful look. “Wish me luck,” I said. “You make your own luck,” he replied.”

— Richelle Mead

370. “I had a standing arrangement with God: I’d agree to believe in him – barely – so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.”

— Richelle Mead

371. “I’m telling you, I wanted to. But I was trapped. You of all people should know what it’s like being caught between groups.”

— Richelle Mead

372. “Also, I didn’t trust any guy who used more styling products than I did.”

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373. “Books were a lot less messy than orgasms.”

— Richelle Mead

374. “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.”

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375. “She was like a tropical flower in this dark, stuffy room. One that could kill you.”

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376. “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.”

— Richelle Mead

377. “Giving advice was a lot harder than following it.”

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378. “And I thought the whole point of my education was that violence IS the answer.”

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379. “People really want to set up these rivalries because there’s a lot of vampire books out there. People want to believe we’re all fierce rivals, and really there’s just so much camaraderie with authors. Everyone kind of boosts each other.”

— Richelle Mead

380. “Good God. Men everywhere.”

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381. “Culinary science? You elected culinary science? That’s the most brainless class ever. -Rose to Christian.”

— Richelle Mead

382. “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.”

— Richelle Mead

383. “I find more peace with you.”

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384. “Abe glanced at Rose. “You see that?” he said. “Now that’s devotion.” She rolled her eyes at him.”

— Richelle Mead

385. “If she just wanted to come home at night to eye candy with good hair, I could probably be that reasonably well.”

— Richelle Mead

386. “I lifted the lid and found a piece of bread and some water – and a rat that quickly darted off the tray. Talk about adding insult to injury.”

— Richelle Mead

387. “Sorry, Ms. Terwilliger. I’m flattered that you think I’m such an upstanding person, but I’m already caught up in one epic battle of good versus evil. I don’t need another.”

— Richelle Mead

388. “But why would Victor and Robert take her? And how the hell did two old men subdue a teenage girl anyway?”

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389. “I brought my lips down to hers, and it was like everything that had ever happened to me had simply been a warm-up for this moment, that this was where my life truly began.”

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390. “I looked back and forth at them in amazement. I didn’t know if I was witnessing a fight or foreplay. I wasn’t thrilled about either option.”

— Richelle Mead

391. “Plus, I was about to spend six weeks with Christian Ozera. He was sarcastic, difficult, and made jokes about everything. Actually, he was a lot like me. It was going to be a long six weeks.”

— Richelle Mead

392. “That memory made a lump form in my throat as I remembered his face, serious and gorgeous, those brown eyes intense and passionate as he spoke up for me and convinced the others of my value.”

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393. “The only thing true about what you just said was the storybook damsel part – and that only because you’re pretty enough to be one.”

— Richelle Mead

394. “Guilt was its own prison.”

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395. “Vampires. Honestly, they’re like children sometimes.”

— Richelle Mead

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

— Richelle Mead

397. “I didn’t like having reasonable arguments thrown at me.”

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398. “My commentary’s hilarious, not witty.”

— Richelle Mead

399. “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.”

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400. “I looked around at us all: me in my nightgown, Kiyo bare-chested, Dorian in his extravagant robes, and Tim in his Native getup. God, I muttered, standing up, we all look like the village people.”

— Richelle Mead