Richelle Mead Quotes

With The Omen, I really felt I wasn't in control. It was panic.

The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio - it sent me a bit mad.

You ever get that feeling that you just have too many hits?

When things get too grand or too big, I struggle to keep up with it all.

The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.

All right," I managed to say, just before I crumpled to the floor. "Let's see what you've got.

Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.

But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.

I have done so many things and the pressure is so great. I am sure I have been a good deal dehumanized.

I don't think I'm an unhappy person. It's just an intensity, not a depressive thing. It's just not having enough layers of skin. It's exhausting.

I've done a few interviews where I realized that 9/11 was the ultimate home invasion, not to be glib about it. You know, where the place that you think is safe and the people that you think are safe and far from evil are suddenly just slaughtered by it, and you have no control over it.

I'm out of control.

After you ride a roller coaster that's been going up for a year and a half, and you reach the pinnacle and then dive straight down with no gradual decline, it's a little disorienting. I didn't know how to take losing.

Once you know how completely and suddenly the earth can open up at your feet and the worst can happen, it also, paradoxically, leaves you more afraid of everything else.

I know what it is like to feel vulnerable and fearful during a difficult time.

Anything is tough when you have a lot of things coming your way.

When something steps in from the work you are doing and breaks into your personal life... you feel kind of vulnerable.

I've lost a lot of control in my life.

PTSD occurs following a trauma that was so awful that in retrospect you don't understand how you survived. What that causes is an extreme feeling of vulnerability that you get past but that doesn't go away.

I know the feeling of confusion and betrayal. I know the feeling of fearing for my life.

Sometimes I feel I don't know even know how to run.

Willem holds my wrist for a long moment, looking at that birthmark. Then he lifts it to his mouth. And though his lips are soft and his kiss is gentle, it feels like a knife jamming into the electrical socket. It feels like the moment when I go live

"They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave."

Sitting there that day, I knew that the only thing I could do was keep putting one foot in front of the other, hoping none of the secrets on my shoulders would make me lose my balance.

There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physical manifestation of unbearable grief.