Richelle Mead Quotes

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This isn't a game. We don't want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you've spent most of your time here being mediocre.

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

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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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I certainly hadn't expected to walk away from today's trip with joint custody of a miniature dragon.

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Adrian sifted through the bags and pulled out a slice of coconut cream. "If I were a dragon, this is what I'd go for." I didn't argue, mainly because that statement had no logical argument.

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She snuggled back under the blanket with me, turned toward me so that she could rest her head on my chest. I hear your heart, she said. Do you check every once in a while, just to make sure I'm not undead?

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Seth told us good night and left. I watched him go wistfully. Anyone else here feel like swooning?

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I don't know, Sage. You threw yourself in the line of pepper spray for me. You must like me just a little bit. I— I figured it'd be a shame to ruin your pretty face, I stammered.

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We had an endless supply of topics, both of us eager to put forth all we knew on anything and everything. Most of the meal was spent discussing the intricacies of the organic certification process. It was pretty awesome.

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I sighed and gestured toward him. "I'll take him." In an undertone, I added, "Don't let me down, Zmey.

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The kind of kiss that said, I want to consume every inch of you and hear you scream my name.

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There was a lot of apologizing going on, but I realized that was how it was with people you cared about. You forgave each other and moved on.

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He anxiously touched his hair. "I think my hair gel's frozen.

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Her eyes flicked over the cards, looked at Dimitri, then looked back at the cards. Her expression was blank. "You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can." She pointed to the Wheel of Fortune card. "The wheel is turning, always turning.

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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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If you try to turn me against Lissa one more time the stories are going to be about you bleeding because I'll have ripped your throat out!

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Yeah? Can you draw a skeleton riding a motorcycle with flames coming out of it? And I want a pirate hat on the skeleton. And a parrot on his shoulder. A skeleton parrot. Or maybe a ninja skeleton parrot? No, that would be overkill. But it'd be cool if the biker skeleton could be shooting some ninja throwing stars. That are on fire.

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

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You make learning fun. Like a children's book or after school special. Tell me about your…um, Athenian women.

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Mark glanced at his watch and sighed. "Look, I have to go, but I'm serious, Rose. Stay here. Stay out of trouble. Fight Strigoi if they come to you, but don't go seeking them blindly. And definitely leave the ghosts alone. " It was a lot of advice to get in a grocery store, a lot of advice I wasn't sure I could follow.

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He glanced over at me, a smile twisting his lips. "Hey, no advice, Ghost Girl. Guardians should be seen and not heard." I flipped him off for the "Ghost Girl" comment but he didn't notice because Lissa was talking to him again.

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I felt my heart breaking all over again. Why? Why had this happened to us? Why was the universe so cruel?

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For a moment, staring down and realizing what I'd just done, I wanted to throw myself in after him, because surely there was no way I could go on living now.

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Maybe you don't need beauty sleep, but some of us aren't so lucky.

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

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Only what? I asked. I could barely hear my own voice. He turned his gaze back to me, firm and unflinching. Only… more human. And that was it. All the anger and sorrow vanished. There was nothing in me. Nothing at all. I was empty. Get out, I said.

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The training part," I guessed. "Yup. You're going to be Dimitri's partner." A moment of funny silence fell, probably not noticeable to anyone except Dimitri and me. Our eyes met. "Guarding partner," Dimitri clarified unnecessarily, like maybe he too had been thinking of other kinds of partners.

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And besides... I don't want to leave you. Er, you guys. He smiled, and it lit up his whole face. Well, 'we' are certainly happy to hear that. Oh, and I'm also happy to watch our darling little love child dragon while you're in St. Louis. I grinned back.

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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.

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