Richelle Mead Quotes

I won't lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name book can kind of make your heart stop.

Have a kid. You obviously shouldn't have a baby just to get politically active, but I'm eight and a half months pregnant, and I swear, thinking about an actual very real future for a tiny person is a game changer.

He puts the chain with the locket around my neck, then rests his hand over the spot where our baby would be. “You’re going to make a great mother, you know,” he says. He kisses me one last time and goes back to Finnick.

My advice for men who aren't yet parents is to make sure you're a happy person before having a baby.

My biggest ambition over everything is to have kids. It feels great. I'd love a big family.

I never felt ready to have a baby until I was about 37 years old. I knew I always wanted kids someday, but I needed to be 'ready,' ya know?

I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents.

I'd like to have kids at some point. I think I'll have a family someday.

I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?

I do not believe having a baby is punishment.

My husband was 50; I was in my late 30s. We had lived adulthoods that did not include infants, except as metaphors. And then, like so many in today's America, we had a baby in later life.

I always wanted children but I was scared. Being responsible for a baby is such a big thing so I was nervous!

My point here, young couples, is that baby-having is extremely serious business, and you probably don't have the vaguest idea what you're doing, as is evidenced by the fact that you're reading a very sloppy and poorly researched book.

I got married and had a baby. Created a human.

I can't wait to be a mom, but I can wait.

There are so many things I'd like to do. Like becoming a parent. To me that is the next natural progression in life.

We'd traveled, we'd been to lots of parties, lots of movies and concerts, we'd slept in. We'd done all those things that people with children seem to miss so passionately. We didn't want those things anymore. We wanted a baby.

I always wanted to be married for a little while before a baby. You know what? It does make me choose my wardrobe differently because if I wear something a little baggy, I'm like, "No, it looks like I'm having a baby!"

I was just surprised when my wife told me we were having a baby. I was like, Wow, that's awesome. You're going to make a great single mom.

Motherhood is an essential, difficult, and full-time job. Women who do not wish to be mothers should not have babies.

I definitely want to have kids one day. That's something I've always wanted since as long as I could remember. And the older I get, the more I'm like, "I'm too young!"

Hopefully I'll be able to mature one of these days, get serious, and at least have them [kids] pretty fast.

I'd love to have a family one day. Having kids is the meaning of life and I can't wait to be a mom.

When I was a young man, I didn't think about having a family. My wife and I were too poor to have babies. Then all of a sudden, one came along and scared the hell out of us because we had no money. Once the baby arrives, you make do somehow. You fall in love with the baby and life adjusts itself. You find you don't need as much money as you thought. When that happens, you can ask the questions that should have come before the baby.

I’ve longed for kids since I was very, very young.