Richelle Mead Quotes

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I want you to break the spell. Finish it off. "What do you mean? "The spell you did on me and Dimitri. "That spell is done. It burned itself out. I shook my head. "No. I keep thinking about him. I keep wanting to… He smiled knowingly when I didn't finish. "My dear, that was already there, long before I set that up.

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

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Don't be too hasty," she warned. "Conserve your strength. If you're too eager to fight the undead, you may find yourselves joining them. Then you'd never see us again, and we'd be very sad." "Yes," said Christian. "I'd cry into my pillow every night." I resisted the urge to kick him. "Well, I couldn't visit if I was Strigoi, yeah, but hopefully I'd just die a normal death. Then I could come see you as a ghost.

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No, thank you," said Adrian. "These hands don't sully themselves with fighting.

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I also have a feeling your mother's going to have a very ugly conversation with me." – Dimitri

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Honor, I thought. For real: the guardians should have taught it. Because I hadn't learned it.

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Fiery and sweet, all at the same time. A flame in the dark, lighting my way.

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

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She has very strong ideas about family - ideas that probably sound kind of sexist to you. She believes all dhampirs should train and put in time as guardians, but that the women should eventually return home to raise their children together. But not the men? No, he said wryly. She thinks men still need to stay out there and kill Strigoi.

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I'm a succubus. He shook his head. No, you aren't. Yes, I am. You aren't. I was a bit surprised to be having this conversation. I am too. No. Succubi are flame-eyed and bat-winged. Everyone knows that. They don't wear jeans and sweaters.

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But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story? "About how you and Adrian Ivashkov are—" "No, whatever you heard it's not true." "But it was really romantic" "Then it's definitely not true.

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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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You understand your responsibilities better than guardians twice your age. You'll do what you have to do to succeed.

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She didn't understand what it was like to be filled with a love so strong that it made your chest ache—a love you could only feel and not express. Keeping love buried was a lot like keeping anger pent up, I'd learned. It just ate you up inside until you wanted to scream or kick something.

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He used to talk to me about Russia all the time and had sworn up and down that I'd love it here. "To you, it'd be like a fairy tale," he'd told me. "Sorry, comrade. Borg and out-of-date music aren't part of any happy ending I've ever imagined." "Borscht, not borg. And I've seen your appetite. If you were hungry enough, you'd eat it." "So starvation's necessary for this fairy tale to work out?

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I saw endless depths of brown, the depths I'd fallen into so many times. No red rings. Dimitri...was not a Strigoi. And he was weeping.

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Feel guilty. Mourn this. But move on. Don't let it destroy you. Forgive yourself.

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None of the bravado he usually showed was there. I guess there was "usually" and then there was being held in the grip of a really ripped, really tall, and really pissed off Russian guy.

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A gun. I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought.

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Nah. I'm a consultant, of course. Everyone's favorite nondescript yet well-paid white-collar job.

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Dorian used to watch you like a starving man who wants meat. Now he looks at you like he wants seconds.

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Oh... Adrian, I've got one more favor to ask you. A big one." "Fondue?" he asked hopefully.

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I know," she said, guessing my thoughts. "I know exactly how you feel." "Does it get easier?" I asked. Unlike Sydney, Olena had an answer. "Yes. But you'll never be the same.

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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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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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