Richelle Mead Quotes

In my twenties, I was a huge, insane risk-taker.

I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs.

I did all the stupid things you'd expect from a 21-year-old kid with money.

I woke up many mornings not knowing what I'd done the night before. I'm amazed I'm not dead.

The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things.

The truth is that I'm an idiot. I am. I don't do things by the rules sometimes. I say things that I probably shouldn't say. I push buttons. I deserve to be made fun of. And I feel like, as soon as you can make fun of something, it instantly removes the fear.

I was kind of wild. I enjoyed myself as a young man. I was moving 100 miles per hour - on and off the field.

We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.

I broke my left arm when I was 8, at a friend's house, when we were jumping off a balcony and throwing down dunks.

Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.

I was kind of a bouncy kid. I used to roller-skate into the sides of cars.

I have a lot of real life experience with hustling and doing stupid stuff.

Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.

Sometimes, I'd take shots without aiming, just to see what happened. I'd rush into crowds - bang! bang! ... It must be close to what a fighter feels after jabbing and circling and getting hit, when suddenly there's an opening, and bang! Right on the button. It's a fantastic feeling.

I dove into the craziness and did things that maybe I would think twice about when I get older.

If I were a young man With my bones full of marrow, Oh, if I were a bold young man Straight as an arrow, I'd store up no virtue For Heaven's distant plain, I'd live at ease as I did please And sin once again.

A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.

The thing about plummetting downhill at fifty miles an hour on a snack platter - if you realize it's a bad idea when you're halfway down, it's too late.

I had grown accustomed to life being interesting and adventure ridden and, rather childishly, I refused to believe that this must necessarily come to an end and that the rest of my life should be a sort of penance for all the reckless, irresponsible, and immensely fun things I’d done before.

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

Yes, I did bite the head off of a dove. Yes, I did bite the head off of a bat. It's a stupid thing to do, but I did it.

It's hard to be careful, though, when you feel indestructible.

We would sit in the living room, drink a case of Busch beer, and throw the empty cans into the kitchen for no reason whatsoever, beyond the fact that it was the most overtly irresponsible way for any two people to live.

Well...can't be any more dangerous than your crazy hospital break-in yeah?"-Tess (pg 59)