Richelle Mead Quotes

I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

We live in this world of great promise, where everything seems to offer an unchanging final happiness, if we can only get enough of it. It is very intoxicating.

I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

That was all and it was enough for me: fantasies are better left fantasies.

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.

'Friends' started because Rachel left her husband at the altar. This likability factor is just so stupid to me. It's the same thing as 'wish-fulfillment,' which is a big word you hear in a lot of Hollywood rooms. It basically means that people want to see other people living a life they can't lead, and I don't buy that. I think that's not true.

There's a million leading men on TV today that are perfectly great, and their jobs are fantastic. But it's not as interesting to me when every fight they win, every case they solve, every girl they get.

I never promised you a rose garden.

The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

My dreams are all follies.

There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more interesting partner, then their life would work. We all go through that one. Slowly we wear out most of our 'if onlies.'

If you have an impossible dream, a dream that cannot be fulfilled, the friendly thing for me to do is to put a stop to you wasting your life at it.

Nothing that you want ever is what you think it is.

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.

I feel like this whole idea of wanting something that you don't really have is also very American in a way.

False expectations take away joy.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

If I only dated actresses, I'd be a very lonely man.