#academy

I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18! ↗

— Angela Lansbury

#academy award #age #award #contract #got

‎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. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#vampire-academy #anger

I'm backing down now. I really do love you. That's why I'm doing this. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#omg #vampire-academy #love

I looked him in the eye. “I will always love you.” Then I plunged the stake into his chest. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#vampire-academy #love

Well he didn't treat my mother very well. He did some horrible things." "Like..." I hesitated. "Blood-whore things?" "Like beating-her-up kinds of things" he replied flatly. "Oh God," I said "That's horrible. And she...she just let it happen?" "She did." The corner of his mouth turned into a sly, sad smile. "But I didn't" "Tell me, tell me you beat the crap out of him" His smile grew, "I did. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#mead #richelle #vampire #smile

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. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#jill #jillian #rose #vampire #romantic

I like him." "Like or like? "Oh, there's a difference? ↗

— Richelle Mead

#lissa #vampire-academy #different

Belikov is a sick, evil man who should be thrown into a pit of rabid vipers for the great offense he commited against you this morning." "Thank you." I said primly. Then, I considered. "Can vipers be rabid?" "I don't see why not. Everything can be. I think. Canadian geese might be worse than vipers, though." "Canadian geese are deadlier than vipers?" "You ever try to feed those little bastards? They're vicious. You get thrown to vipers, you die quickly. But the geese? That'll go on for days. More suffering." "Wow. I don't know whether I should be impressed or frightened that you've thought about all of this. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#frostbite #mason #reading #richelle-mead #rose

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

#richelle-mead #rose-hathaway #vampire-academy #right

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? ↗

— Richelle Mead

#vampire-academy #wild