Richelle Mead Quotes

I definitely feel more complete than before. There's a void you have when you don't feel you've found the other part of who you are, so I'm in a different place now and that's nice to experience.

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves.

More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person.

The way I look at it, love does not necessarily make for a happy ending any more than winning does. What makes for a happy ending is what Addie said all along: freedom. The freedom to be who you are without anybody calling you names. —Bobby Goodspeed

Every time I drift away I lose myself in you. And now I see I can be me in every thing I do.

because it's Spring thingS dare to do people (& not the other way round)because it 's A pril Lives lead their own persons(in stead of everybodyelse's)but what's wholly marvellous my Darling is that you & i are more than you & i(be ca us e It's we)

On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in her strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself--on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger.

He had loved and he had found himself. Most people love to lose themselves.

There is no such thing as a soulmate...and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that I might be Superman and know that I was. Then I started thinking about how cool it was.

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

In their 30s women really start to live... they're not children anymore, and they're not just mothers.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love.

But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

I write about emotions - falling in and out of love, finding what you want to do, no matter where you are or who you are. I think that's why people feel connected.

I came to love, I came into my own.

I love the ability to transform because that, for me, is a liberation.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.