Richelle Mead Quotes

We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell, no matter how angry we get one day, no matter the things we say that we don't mean.

My laundry list of wants in a partner is basically kindness. I want someone who is kind, and that's kind of where it begins and ends. I'm open to being surprised.

Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony.

I just want to love and be loved.

Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.

I am curious about people. I want to know their secrets... because I am the last person to whom I would tell a secret; people tell me their secrets.

I love women, but I've never had a relationship with a woman.

If I have a connection with someone, I'd like to think that they'd be able to respect that connection enough and respect themselves enough to not care about my past - that they would want to see what happens between us.

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

When you're in a relationship, if you just break it down to regular terms, people are attracted to something, and that's what they want you to be, and that's what you should just be, and for me, it's very simple - if I meet a girl and I say, 'This is what I like about you. Just continue. Every day.'

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

I am a simple man, though my wife says I am complicated. I'll trust her on that one.

In love we often doubt what we most believe.

When it comes to relationships, I think I'm pretty experienced - you'd be surprised.

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

You never know when you actually fall in love.

I realize that I'm one of those guys that if I'm not with you, you hate me. But when I'm with you, you understand who I am and what I'm about and love me.

He gives my hand a tight squeeze, but that desperation, that urgency between us is gone. No insecurities. Max and Fang. Fang and Max. No longer a question. We just are.

In his normal state he would not strike a lamb. I’ve known him to do it’ ‘Do what?’ ‘Not strike lambs

You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.

The one thing that keeps us out of connection is our fear that we're not worthy of connection.

Love happens when people forgive.

When you really love someone, you must accept their part of mystery. And that’s why you love them.

It's funny how you can think you know someone pretty well, and then something happens or they do something that makes you understand that you didn't really know them at all.

I didn't say you shouldn't worry, do you think I don't worry? But no, you probably can't do anything about me.' 'Well, maybe no, Sassenach, and maybe so. But I've lived a long enough time now to think it maybe doesna matter so much-- so long as I can love you.' -Claire & Jamie Fraser