"You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love."
— Richelle Mead (Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2))

"The spell. Victor said you had to want me... to care about me... for it to work." When he didn't say anything, I tried to grip his shirt, but my fingers were too weak. "Did you? Did you want me?"
His words came out thickly. "Yes, Roza. I did want you. I still do. I wish... we could be together."
"Then why did you lie to me?"
We reached the clinic, and he managed to open the door while still holding me. As soon as he stepped inside, he began yelling for help.
"Why did you lie?" I murmured again.
Still holding me in his arms, he looked down at me. I could hear voices and footsteps getting closer.
"Because we can't be together."
"Because of the age thing, right?" I asked. "Because you're my mentor?"
His fingertip gently wiped away a tear that had escaped down my cheek. "That's part of it," he said. "But also... well, you and I will both be Lissa's gaurdians someday. I need to protect her at all cost. If a pack of Strogoi come, I need to throw my body between them and her."
I know that. Of course that's what you have to do." The black sparkles were dancing in front of my eyes again. I was fading out.
"No. If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you."
— Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy)

"Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies."
— Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy)

""You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can.""
— Richelle Mead (Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3))

"The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms."
— Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy)

"I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass."
— Richelle Mead (Blood Promise)

"I set off, off to kill the man I love."
— Richelle Mead (Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3))

"What's up?" I asked.

"You tell me," he (Christian) said. "You were the one about ready to start making out with Adrian."

"It was an experiment," I said. "It was part of my therapy."

"What the hell kind of therapy are you in?" "
— Richelle Mead (Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3))

"He stepped back and threw his arms out.
"I'm always crazy around you Rose. Here, I'm going to write an impromptu poem for you."
He tipped his head back and shouted to the sky:
"Rose is in red
But never in blue
Sharp as a thron
Fights like one too."
~Adrian"
— Richelle Mead (Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3))

"Yeah. We were badasses."
— Richelle Mead (Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3))

"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 (Vampire Academy)

""what's your name?"
"what?" i asked, squinting at the light.
"your name." I reconized Dr. Olendzki peering over me.
"you know my name."
"I want you to tell me."
"Rose. Rose Hathaway."
"Do you know your birthday?"
"Of course I do. Why are you asking me such stupid things? Did you lose my records?"
Dr. Olendzki gave an exasperated sigh and walked off, taking the annoying light with her. "I think she's fine," "
— Richelle Mead (Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2))

"Bound by Love, But sworn to Kill..."
— Richelle Mead (Blood Promise)

"Rose: "Do you think I'm pretty?"
Dimitri: "I think your beautiful"
Rose: "Beautiful?"
Dimitri: You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes""
— Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy)

"You know what would help?" I asked, not meeting his eyes.

"Hmm?"

"If you turned off this crap music and put on something that came out after the Berlin Wall went down."

Dimitri laughted. "Your worst class is history, yet somehow, you know everything about Eastern Europe."

"Hey, gotta have material for my jokes, Comrade." Still smiling, he turned the radio dail. To a country station.

"Hey! This isn't what I had in mind," I exclaimed. I could tell he was on the verge of laughing again.

"Pick. It's one or the other."

I sighed. "Go back to the 1980s stuff."

He flipped the dail, and I crossed my arms over my chest as some vaguely European-sounding band sang about how video had killed the radio star. I wished someone would kill this radio."
— Richelle Mead (Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2))

"You forgot another lesson: Never turn your back until you know your enemy
is dead. Looks like we’ll have to go over the lesson again the next time
I see you—which will be soon.
Love, D."
— Richelle Mead (Blood Promise)

"It's not about you, okay? This time, it's about me. Not you. All my life, Lissa... all my life, it's been the same. They come first. I've lived my life for you. I've trained to be your shadow, but you know what? I want to come first. I need to take care of myself for once. I'm tired of looking out for everyone else and having to put aside what I want. Dimitri and I did that, and look what happened. He's gone. I will never hold him again. Now I owe it to him to do this. I'm sorry if it hurts you, but it's my choice!

~Rose Hathaway"
— Richelle Mead (Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3))

""Did you see that dress?” "I saw the dress.” "Did you like it?” He didn't answer. I took that as a yes. "Am I going to endanger my reputation if I wear it to the dance?” When he spoke, I could barely hear him. "You'll endanger the school.” I smiled and fell asleep.
(Rose & Dimitri)"
— Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy)

""Not into older guys, huh?" asked Adrian once we were alone.
"You're imagining things," I said. "Clearly, My stunning beauty has clouded your mind." "
— Richelle Mead (Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2))

"I know how devastated you must be to miss me, but leave a message, and I'll try to ease your agony"
— Richelle Mead (Blood Promise)

""Wow." I hadn't thought Dimitri could be any cooler, but I was wrong. "You beat up your dad. I mean, that's really horrible...what happened. But, wow. You really are a god."
He blinked. "What?"
"Uh, nothing.""
— Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy)

""can you read my mind now?" i asked ruefully.
"No, i can just read you. Finally. I can't belive how blind I was. I can't belive i never noticed. Victors comment... he was right."A flash of anger, both her feelings and he eyes hit me. "Why didn't you tell." She cried. "Why didn't you tell me you loved Dimitri!""
— Richelle Mead

"There's nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what'll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueler than any captor."
— Richelle Mead (Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2))

""Yeah? What'd you name all those cats?"

"Death, Famine, Pestilence, War, and Mr. Whiskers."

"You named your cats after the riders of the apocal--wait. Mr. Whiskers?"

"Well, there are only four horsemen.""
— Richelle Mead

"But I couldn't help myself, couldn't help the way I felt as I recalled the bliss and rush of a vampire's bite."
— Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy)

"Dimitri: "She Might be wild and disrespectful, but if she has potential-"
Rose: "Wild and disrespecful? Who the hell are you anyway? Oursourced help?"
Kirova" "Guardian Belikov is the princess lissa's guardian now, her sanctioned guardian."
Rose: "You got cheap foreign labor to protect Lissa?"



~Vampire Academy 1, chapter 2~"
— Richelle Mead

""You…you got rid of that dress fast," I pointed out between heavy breaths. "I thought you liked it.” "I do like it," he said. His breathing was as heavy as mine. "I love it.” And then he took me to the bed.
(Rose & Dimitri)"
— Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy)

"The incident with Dawn hadn't been one of my finer moments. I honestly hadn't expected to break any bones when I shoved her into a tree. Still, the incident had given me a dangerous reputation. The story had gained legendary status, and I liked to imagine that it was still being told around campfires late at night. Judging by the look on the girl's face, it was."
— Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy)

"If you want some advice-which I'm sure you don't-you guys should lay off on the magic. Christian still thinks you're movinf in on Lissa."
"What?" he asked in mock astonishment. "Dosen't he know my heart belongs to you?"
"It does not. And no, he's still worried about it, despite what I've told him."
"You know, I bet if we started making out right now, it would make him feel better."
"If you touch me," I said pleasantly, "I'll provide you with the opportunity to see if you can heal yourself. Then we'd see how badass you really are."
— Richelle Mead (Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3))

"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. "
— Richelle Mead (Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2))

"It's okay," I said soothingly. "You're just getting your stride back. Once you're up to full power, I'll go crack a rib or something so we can test it."
She groaned. "The horrible part is that I don't think you're joking."
— Richelle Mead (Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3))

""You've asked me out tons of times."
"Not really. I've made inappropriate suggestions and frequently pushed for nudity. But I've never asked you out on a real date."
- Rose and Adrian in Blood Promise"
— Richelle Mead (Blood Promise)

""You, know I'm the Queen's favorite great nephew, Well, yeah I'm her only great nephew, but that's not important, I'd still be her favorite...""
— Richelle Mead

""that's pretty hot," he said.
"Punching me in the eye?"
"Well, no. Of course not. I meant the idea of getting rough with you is hot. I'm a big fan of full-contact sports."
"I'm sure you are," "
— Richelle Mead (Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2))

"That's what I was supposed to say...

Dimitri to Rose"
— Richelle Mead (Blood Promise)

""Stop fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held.
He was in a precarious postiton himself,straddling the rail as he tried to lean over far enough so that I wasn't in total danger of falling again.
See, here's the thing. In that moment before I let go, I really had been contemplating my death. I'd come to terms with it and accepted it. I also, however, had known Dimitri might do something exactly like this. He was just that fast and that good. That was why I was holding my stake in the hand that was dangling free.
I looked him in the eye, "I will always love you."
Then plunged the stake into his chest.
It wasn't as precise a blow as I would have liked, not with the skilled way he was dodging. I struggled to get the stake in deep enough to his heart,unsure if I could do it from this angle. Then, his strugglesstopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one.
"That's what I was supposed to say..." he gasped out.
Those were his last words."
— Richelle Mead (Blood Promise)

"Okay, God, I thought. Get me out of this and I’ll stop my half-assed churchgoing ways(...)Let me get out of here, and I’ll . . . I don’t know. Donate Adrian’s money to the poor. Get baptized. Join a convent. Well, no. Not that last one. "
— Richelle Mead (Blood Promise)

"Everyone has light around them, except for you. You have shadows."
— Richelle Mead (Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2))

"If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking"
— Richelle Mead (Blood Promise)

"adrian will you shut the hell up for five seconds?!!!"
— Richelle Mead (Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3))

""Even I make mistakes." I put on my brash, overconfident face. "I know it's hard to believe - kind of surprises me myself - but I guess it has to happen. It's probably some kind of karmic way to balance out the universe. Otherwise, it wouldn't be fair to have one person so full of awesomeness." "
— Richelle Mead (Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3))

""Oh, so that's why you're up here. For a pity party."

"This isn't a joke. I'm serious." I could tell Lissa was getting angry. It was trumping her earlier distress.

He shrugged and leaned casually against the sloping wall. "So am I. I love pity parties. I wish I'd brought the hats. What do you want to mope about first? How it's going to take you a whole day to be popular and loved again? How you'll have to wait a couple weeks before Hollister can ship out some new clothes? If you spring for rush shipping, it might not be so long.""
— Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy)

"Lissa and I had been friends ever since kindergarten, when our teacher had paired us up together for writing lessons. Forcing five-year-olds so spell Vasilisa Dragomir and Rosemarie Hathaway was beyond cruel, and we’d–or rather, I’d–responded appropriately. I’d chucked my book at out teacher and called her a fascist bastard. I hadn’t known what those words meant, but I’d known how to hit a moving target.
Lissa and I had been inseparable ever since."
— Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy)

""Sweat isn't a bad thing," he said, leaning his head against the wall thoughtfully. "Some of the best things in life happen while your sweating. Yeah, if you get too much of it and it gets old and stale, it turns pretty gross. But on a beautiful women? Intoxicating. If you c ould smell things like a vampire does, you'd know what I'm talking about. Most people mess it all up and drown themselves in perfume. Perfume can be good ... especially if you get one that goes with your chemistry. But you only need a hint. mix about 20 percent of that with 80 percent of your own perspiration ... mmm." He tilted his head to the side and looked at me. "Dead sexy.""
— Richelle Mead (Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2))

"Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream. "
— Richelle Mead (Succubus Blues)

""No," Dimitri interrupted gently. He moved his face
toward mine, our foreheads nearly touching. "It won't happen to
you. You're too strong. You'll fight it, just like you did this
time."
"I only did because you were here." He wrapped his arms
around me, and I buried my face in his chest. "I can't do it by
myself," I whispered.
"You can," he said. There was a tremulous note in his
voice. "You're strong-you're so, so strong. It's why I love you."

~Dimitri~
"
— Richelle Mead (Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3))

""Wait. You think I'm going to die? That's why
you slept with me?"
"No, no, of course not. I did what I did because ... believe
me, it wasn't because of that. Regardless of the specifics-or if
it's even true-she was right about how easily things can
change. We try to do what's right, or rather, what others say is
right. But sometimes, when that goes against who we are...you have to choose. Even before the Strigoi attack, as I watched all
the problems you were struggling with, I realized how much you
meant to me. It changed everything. I was worried about you-
so, so worried. You have no idea. And it became useless to try
to act like I could ever put any Moroi life above yours. It's not
going to happen, no matter how wrong others say it is. And so I
decided that's something I have to deal with. Once I made that
decision ... there was nothing to hold us back." He hesitated,
seeming to replay his words as he brushed my hair from my
face. "Well, to hold me back. I'm speaking for myself. I don't
mean to act like I know exactly why you did it."
"I did it because I love you," I said, like it was the most
obvious thing in the world. And really, it was.
He laughed. "You can sum up in one sentence what it
takes me a whole speech to get out."
"Because it's that simple. I love you, and I don't want to
keep pretending like I don't."
"I don't either." His hand dropped from my face and found
my hand. Fingers entwined, we began walking again. "I don't
want any more lies.""
— Richelle Mead (Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3))

""Hey Mason, wipe the drool off your face. If you're going to think about me naked, do it on your own time.”[...]"This is my time, Hathaway. I'm leading today's session.” "Oh yeah?" I retorted. "Huh. Well, I guess this is a good time to think about me naked, then.” "It's always a good a time to think about you naked," added someone nearby, breaking the tension further."
— Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy)

"You can't force love, I realized. It's there or it isn't. If it's not there, you've got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you've got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love."
— Richelle Mead (Frostbite (Vampire Academy, #2))

"A ghostly smile flickered across his face. "If you weren't so psychotic, you'd be fun to hang around.” "Funny, I feel that way about you too.” He didn't say anything else, but the smile grew, and he walked away.
(Rose & Christian)"
— Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy)