Quotes About The Bloodlines

#1. You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.

Charles De Lint

#2. Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.

Louise Erdrich

#3. The bloodline of Christ is deeper than the bloodlines of race.

John Piper

#4. I won't lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name book can kind of make your heart stop.
"I'm no expert," I began, choosing my words carefully. "Well - actually, I am. And I'm pretty sure there are certain things we have to do before you need to be reading that.

Richelle Mead

#5. Look what we've done so far. We're pretty good at the impossible.

Richelle Mead

#6. I found the candles - atrocious air freshening ones that smelled like fake pine.

Richelle Mead

#7. Because I've got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding."
"Why are they all high-calorie foods?

Richelle Mead

#8. History is important because it teaches us about the past. And bylearning about the past, you come to understand the present, so that you may make educated decisions about the future.

Richelle Mead

#9. I'm guessing whatever 'ways' you have in mind aren't Jill-appropriate either."
"Put your books away and I'll show you.

Richelle Mead

#10. To me, what constitutes a family are those who you choose to make your family. Whether they're related through bloodlines or only timelines, they're the people

Charles Dennis

#11. My nails dug into his back, and he trailed his lips down the edge of my chin, down the center of my neck. He kept going until he reached the bottom of the dress's V-neck. I let out a small gasp, and he kissed all around the neckline, just enough to tease.

Richelle Mead

#12. Escape plan number seventeen," I told her. "Run away and open a juice stand in Fresno."
"Why Fresno?"
"Sounds like the kind of place people drink a lot of juice.

Richelle Mead

#13. Melbourne, I always knew you'd need to learn about this kind of thing. I 'd just kind of hoped you'd learn it on a real guy.

Richelle Mead

#14. I'd been raised to be practical and keep my
emotions in check, but I loved cars. That was one of the few
legacies I'd picked up from my mom. She was a mechanic,
and some of my best childhood memories were of working
in the garage with her.

Richelle Mead

#15. I'm telling you, you'd like him. He goes to a public school and just started at Spencer's. The other day, he was going off on unaerobic vs. aerobic respiration, and I was thinking, 'You know who this sounds like? Melbourne.'" -- Trey

Richelle Mead

#16. For the moment, I'm just Daire - a girl straddling two bloodlines. One I was given - one I must earn.

Alyson Noel

#17. Judaism is not a religion. At best, it is a racial credo, designed to maintain racial cohesion, in this case the Khazar bloodlines.

Henry Makow

#18. All we can go on is what we think, how we see the world. If you can't trust your own mind what can you trust?

Richelle Mead

#19. I wrote back with a quick message:
How do you know about 24601? I refuse to believe you read the book. You saw the musical, right?
I hit send and received a response back from him almost immediately.
SparkNotes.

Richelle Mead

#20. I'm not a warrior or a goddess," I said at last.
Adrian leaned closer. "As far as I'm concerned, you're both.

Richelle Mead

#21. In the end ... he would choose Campisi.
In the end ... she would choose Abandonato.
In the end ... there would be bloodshed.

Rachel Van Dyken

#22. I clung to that spark of hope,
nurturing it into a small flame that
chased some of the shadows in my heart
away.

Richelle Mead

#23. Ivashkov," she repeated, her face the picture of serenity. "My name is Sydney Ivashkov.

Richelle Mead

#24. Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines.

Timothy Noah

#25. You will not! It's wrong."
"What, kissing you, or kissing you in Pies and Stuff?

Richelle Mead

#26. I need it! I need it! It's a royal heirloom!"
"Adrian?"
"What are you doing here?"
"Looking for you. Come on, we need to go. I'll drive you home."
"No, I can't. Not until we get it. He stole it!

Richelle Mead

#27. Relax, having kids is years away. But can you imagine? Your brains, my charm, our collective good looks ... then add in the usual physical abilities dhampirs get.
It's really not even fair to everyone else.

Richelle Mead

#28. So many details came into focus. The shape of his lips, the line of his neck. "I'm not dangerous," I breathed.
He brought his face toward mine. "You are to me."
And somehow, against all reason, we were kissing. I closed my eyes, and the world around me faded.

Richelle Mead

#29. Watch it." he said at last. "I can make your life miserable." I gave him an icy smile. "You already have, and that's why i've got the advantage. You've done your worst but you haven't seen what i can do yet.

Richelle Mead

#30. So," I said at last, staring at my hands. "How's, uh, your car?"
"I left it out on the street. Figured it'll be fine there while I'm gone.

Richelle Mead

#31. Moroi shied from the sunlight but as I watched Sydney, I knew without a doubt that humans had been made for the sun.

Richelle Mead

#32. A princess of her people has no business sitting off to the side while her people are in danger.

Richelle Mead

#33. An image of Sydney's face appeared in my mind's eye, calm and lovely.
I believe in you.
My anxiety faded.
I took a deep breath and met the gazes of all those watching me in the room.
Who was I to do this?
I was Adrian Ivashkov.
And I was about to kick some ass.

Richelle Mead

#34. 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

#35. But when I touch you, your aura ... it smolders. The colors deepen, it burns more intensely, the purple increases. Why? Why, Sydney?" He used that hand to pull me closer. "Why do you react that way if I don't mean anything to you?" There was a desperation in his voice, and it was legitimate.

Richelle Mead

#36. My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.

Halle Berry

#37. What was I thinking? Of all the assistants I could have wound up with, why did I have to choose the one with the scary mother and troublemaking in his bloodlines? I am doomed.

Trudi Canavan

#38. The heart doesn't care about bloodlines or birth parents. It just seems to know how to love in the same way our lungs know how to breathe.

Melissa Foster

#39. Sydney spent a lot of time on my bed these days.
Unfortunately, it wasn't with me.

Richelle Mead

#40. Did Belikov bend the rules of time and space to get here so fast? He can do that, right?

Richelle Mead

#41. That's truth, Harvey, not what's written on a piece of paper or in blood too small to see - but the memory of how it felt being together.

Simon Van Booy

#42. Everything's about my personal entertainment. The world is my stage. Keep it up- you're becoming a star performer in the show.

Richelle Mead

#43. Love and Loyalty, run deeper than blood. Love that quote even though I haven't read the book.

Richelle Mead

#44. But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as, if not more than, blood.

Martina Boone

#45. When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.

Brad Pitt

#46. Too bad you got so bogged down in books. You've got the spirit of a warrior.

Richelle Mead

#47. Twelve years ago, when I was on the Pine Ridge Reservation for 'Thunderheart,' I was dong research into Native American horses that had come into extinction. I was tracing certain Lakota bloodlines, and it became an obsession.

John Fusco

#48. Bloodlines and last names didn't make a man extraordinary - the extraordinary existed in what we did in life, not in who we were.

Courtney Alameda

#49. And that's the thing, I think ... the real reason I'm not that weirded out by you two. It goes against all sound logic, but somehow, you two together ... it just works.

Richelle Mead

#50. You want to be an alchemist so badly? Don't wait to react to the immediate problem.
Plan ahead. Look at the big picture and you won't ever have to deal with that problem.
Better to save yourself from a major catastrophe than drag your feet over a bunch of little inconveniences.

Richelle Mead

#51. My boyfriend was insanely sexy, vampire or not, and I couldn't keep my hands off him.

Richelle Mead

#52. Damn, you have no idea what I have been through today."
"Actually I have a pretty good idea.

Richelle Mead

#53. Sometimes it is easier to feel the veins wilted and empty than to sense the coldness of blood in fear

Munia Khan

#54. Do you really want him to get over you?

Richelle Mead

#55. Wow," said Adrian. He sat down on the bed and tested its bounciness, giving it a nod of approval. "This is amazing. What do you think, buttercup?"
"I have no words," I said honestly.
He patted the spot beside him. "Want to try it out?

Richelle Mead

#56. Adrian, I'm on a date. Why are you here? On my car?

Richelle Mead

#57. You made your own jean shorts ... with a butter knife?

Richelle Mead

#58. The color," he breathed. "When you stand in the light. They're amazing ... like molten gold. I could paint those ... " He reached toward me but then pulled back. "They're beautiful. You're beautiful." -Bloodlines

Richelle Mead

#59. I saw Lord Sabaoth (The Lord of Hosts) assign the angel hosts to go to bloodlines and command familiar and familial spirits to back off and quit speaking from past mistakes and past reproaches.

Chuck Pierce

#60. You might not believe this, but there is no one like her at this school."
"Oh I believe it," I said, thinking back to the time Angeline had forgotten her locker's combination and tried to get into it with an axe.
No one was really sure where she'd gotten it from.

Richelle Mead