Richelle Mead Quotes

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.

I know I may have done some bad things, but I'm not a bad person.

I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.

That's the problem with having a moral code. We want to destroy the jerkish part of the jerks, but we want to save the human being underneath.

I am sorry," was all Drizzt could quietly mouth. Vierna shook her head, refusing any apology. To Drizzt, it seemed as if that buried part of her that was Zaknafein Do'Urden's daughter approved of this ending.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

I am not what I ought to be! Ah! how imperfect and deficient! - I am not what I wish to be! I 'abhor what is evil,' and I would 'cleave to what is good!' - I am not what I hope to be! Soon, soon, I shall put off mortality: and with mortality all sin and imperfection! Yet, though I am not what I ought to be, nor what I wish to be, nor what I hope to be, I can truly say, I am not what I once was - a slave to sin and Satan; and I can heartily join with the Apostle, and acknowledge; By the grace of God, I am what I am!

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.

The balance between good and evil, and the choices we make between them, are probably the single most important aspects shaping our personalities and humanity.

A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore.

You'll come back, because yours is an error of knowledge, not a moral failure, not an act of surrender to evil, but only the last act of being victim to your own virtue. We'll wait for you and when you come back, you will have discovered that there need never be any conflict among your desires, nor so tragic a clash of values as the one you've borne so well.

I did not know that I would grow to be my mothers evil seed and do these evil deeds.

I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.

I believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead which I'm sure will pass.

Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.

In philosophy seminars, the choice is usually between good and evil. In the real world, however, the choice is often between a bad guy and a worse guy.

The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn't saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me.

Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

Setbacks, on the other hand, just make us feel weak and stupid: I should have conquered this by now. I happened on a question not long ago that oerfectly expresses this mentality: How many times must I prove myself an idiot?

I'm still divided in my principles and what I think is right and what I'm actually able to do, whether talking about writing or being a citizen or being a husband or being a father. And I'm trying to get better.

From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature.

Pea was aware suddenly of how fragile her heart was, how much darkness was inside it, fighting, always, with the light. She did not like the rat. She would neverlike the rat, but she knew what she must do to save her own heart.