Richelle Mead Quotes

Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.

The nice girl thinks she's giving up something to get something better in return. She gives up control over her own life. When the time comes for her to get what she expected, she winds up disappointed. In addition to being empty-handed, she's depleted.

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?

I didn't really want to give up music.

I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover.

The idea of giving up something small for yourself to gain something big for all is not new, but putting that ancient idea into practice is the central necessity of our new age.

I think giving up people is a difficult thing.

When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.

I gave up school. I gave up a really, really good job. I gave up a lot of stuff. I cut a lot of people out of my life so I could just focus on my fighting dreams.

I'm not going to get rid of my house in Vegas. I love that house.

It's always easier to sacrifice when you're not the one who has to do it.

Sometimes freedom demands a measure of sacrifice.

I own a car: a minivan. But don't tell anyone, 'cause they're gonna ask to borrow it.

I give up so much to do what I do. Like, I give up a personal life. I give up my friends, my family. I give up a lot of stuff to pursue what I love and to make my fans happy. I give up so much. So, I'm going to be the best.

There was much to put out of his mind. Why was it difficult to forget Chekov's astonished delight which greeted him at the command airlock when he boarded. And on the bridge - Kirk! The mere name made Spock groan inwardly as he remembered what it had cost him to turn away from that welcome. T'hy'la!

I have never thought that I have sacrificed anything being a writer. That might not be true, maybe I have sacrificed something. Maybe I've given something up, but I can't think of it.

I think I made a lot of sacrifices.

You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand." "If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.

There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed in writing a body of work.

And while it is hard enough to take away something that makes a person happy it's even more difficult when it seems like it's the only thing.

She said if she couldn't play, she had nothing left. What about me?