"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

"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)

"I set off, off to kill the man I love."
— 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)

"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))

"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)

"
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 series)

""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))

""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)

""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)

"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

"At the same time, we both pulled back briefly still oh so close. Everything in the word rested on that moment.
"WE can't..." He told me
"I know" I agreed
Then his mouth was on mine again, and this time I knew there would be no turning back"
— Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy series)

""I was sure he was going bring up some zen life lesson, but instead, he kissed me" - Rose"
— Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy series)

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

"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)

"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)

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

Dimitri to Rose"
— Richelle Mead (Blood Promise)

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

"‘It’s okay. Everything’s going to be okay. You can let go of the sword.’
‘I can’t. I can’t leave him alone. I have to protect him.’
‘You have.’

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

""And than suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster" - Rose"
— Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy series)

"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)

"--"Roza." His voice had the same wonferful lowness, the same accent . . . it was all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don't Hesitate"--
-Dimitri Belikov"
— RichelleMead - Blood Promise

"The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows.Remember that."
— Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy)

""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))

""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)

""We can't..." he told me.
"I know," I agreed.
Then his mouth was on mine again, and this time, I knew
there would be no turning back. There were no walls this time.
Our bodies wrapped together as he tried to get my coat off, then
his shirt, then my shirt. ... It really was a lot like when we'd
fought out on the quad earlier-that same passion and heat. I
think at the end of the day, the instincts that power fighting and
sex aren't so different. They all come from an animal side of us.
Yet, as more and more clothes came off, it went beyond
just animal passion. It was sweet and wonderful at the same
time. When I looked into his eyes, I could see without a doubt
that he loved me more than anyone else in the world, that I was
his salvation, the same way that he was mine. I'd never expected
my first time to be in a cabin in the woods, but I realized the
place didn't matter. The person did. With someone you loved,
you could be anywhere, and it would be incredible. Being in the
most luxurious bed in the world wouldn't matter if you were
with someone you didn't love."
— 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))

""Vladimir did great things-so could she. Besides, they
come first, right?"
"Not always."
I stared. I'd had they come first drilled into me since I was
a child. It was what all guardians believed. Only the dhampirs
who'd run away from their duty didn't subscribe to that. What he
said was almost like treason.
"Sometimes, Rose, you have to know when to put yourself
first."

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

""Did you mean it... that if Victor did tell...that you'd..." I
couldn't finish. I couldn't bring myself to say the words have
him killed.
"I don't have much influence in the upper levels of Moroi
royalty, but I have plenty among the guardians who handle the
dirty work in our world."
"You didn't answer the question. If you'd really do it."
"I'd do a lot of things to protect you, Roza."

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

""You kill me, Rose," he said melodramatically. "Every day is agony without you. Empty. Alone. I pine for you, wondering if you're even still alive.

-blood promise"
— Richelle Mead (Blood Promise)

" "I love you, Roza." He kissed me again. "I'll always be here for you. I'm not going to let anything happen to you."
The words were wonderful and dangerous. He shouldn't have said anything like that to me. He shouldn't have been promising he'd protect me, not when he was supposed to dedicate his life to protecting Moroi like Lissa. I couldn't be first in his heart, just like he couldn't be first in mine. That was why I shouldn't have said what I said next-but I did anyway.
"And I won't let anything happen to you," I promised. "I love you." He kissed me again, swallowing off any other words I might have added.

-Rose and Dimitri"
— Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss p.351

" "Rose. Listen to me. Run. Run as fast and as hard as you can back to your dorm. Tell the guardians."
I nodded. There was no questioning here.
Reaching out, he gripped my upper arm, gaze locked on me to make sure I understood his next words. "Do not stop," he said. "No matter what you hear, no matter what you see, do not stop. Not until you've warned the others. Don't stop unless you're directly confronted. Do you understand?"
I nodded again. He released his hold.
"Tell them buria."
I nodded again.
"Run."


-Dimitri and Rose"
— Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss p.355

" The dhampir dorm appeared before me, about half its windows lit. It was near curfew; people were going to bed. I burst in through the doors, feeling like my heart was going to explode from the exertion. The first person I saw was Stan, and I nearly knocked him over. He caught my wrists to steady me.
"Rose, wh-"
"Strigoi," I gasped out. "There are Strigoi on campus."
He stared at me, and for the first time I'd ever seen, his mouth seriously dropped open. Then, he recovered himself, and I could immediately see what he was thinking. More ghost stories. "Rose, I don't know what you're-"
"I'm not crazy!" I screamed. Everyone in the dorm's lobby was staring at us. "They're out there! They're out there, and Dimitri is fighting them alone. You have to help him." What had Dimitri told me? What was that word? "Buria. He said to tell you buria."
And like that, Stan was gone.

-Rose and Stan"
— Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss p.356

"I fought against her, trying to mount some kind of defense, but it was like fighting Dimitri on crack. "
— Richelle Mead

"I'm really not good with impulse control. "
— Richelle Mead

"The other problem in my life is Dimitri. He's the one who killed Natalie, and he's a total badass. He's also pretty good-looking. Okay- more then good-looking. He's hot-like, the kind of hot that makes you stopwalking on the street and get hit by traffic. "
— Richelle Mead

""The training part,"I guessed.
"Yup.You'er 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."
— Richelle Mead

""Roza..."
The voice caressed my skin, cold and deadly.
Still scrutinizing his surroundings, Dimitri took one step forward. Then another. And then another.
I think it occurred to him to look up the instant I jumped. My body slammed into his, knocking him to the ground back first. He immediately tried to throw me off, just as I tried to drive the stake through his heart. Signs of fatigue and fighting were all over him. Defeating the other Strigoi had taken its toll, though I doubted I was in much better shape. We grappled, and once, I managed to rake the stake over his cheek. He snarled in pain but kept his chest well protected. Over it, I could see where i'd ripped his shirt the first time i'd staked him. The wound had already healed.
"You. Are. Amazing," he said, his words full of both pride and battle fury."
— Richelle Mead- Blood Promise

"I left her ther crying as I walked toward the gate. A piece of my soul had died when Dimitri had fallen. Turning my back on her now, I felt another piece die as well. Soon there wouldnt be anything left inside me."
— Richelle Mead

""when i saw you fall.. i thought..." - dimitri
"Wow, she's a loser?" - rose"
— Richelle Mead (Vampire Academy Box Set)

""We need to be together."
"Why?" I asked softly. The word was carried away on the wind, but he heard.
"Because I want you."
I gave him a sad smile, wondering if we'd meet again in the land of the dead. "Wrong answer," I told him.
I let go"
— Richelle Mead (Blood Promise)

"Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.

'After all this time?'

'Always,' said Snape."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."
— Paul Bowles (The Sheltering Sky)

"The imporant things in life never happened by accident. But even with those things that were meant to be, sometimes you had to wait awhile and then maybe give them a little nudge."
— Nicholas Evans