Richelle Mead Quotes

Not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done.

No one teaches you how to walk away from someone who you know loves you. NO one teaches you how to say good-bye.

For a while, Mirabelle believes there will be a moment when he will cave in and let himself love her, but eventually she lets the idea go. She hits bottom. She dwells in the muck for several months, not depressed exactly, but involved in a mourning that at first she thinks is for Ray but soon realizes is for the loss of her old self.

Oh, seek, my love, your newer way; I'll not be left in sorrow. So long as I have yesterday, Go take your damned tomorrow!

You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most broken place, are going, going

I knew it in my bones. That this time was it. I had finally made my choice, and so had he. He let me go. I was relieved, which I expected. What I didn't expect was to feel so much grief.

If you leave, we lose and our pasts win.

Tell me why you're so hard to forget. Don't remind me, I'm not over it. Tell me why, I can't seem to face the truth, I'm just a little too not over you.

No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.

I still remember the day I quit all posts in Sena. I was equally hurt and saddened.

My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.

Do i really want him dead? What i want... what i want is to have him back.

I had to get over [him]. For months now, a stone had been sitting on my heart. I'd shed a lot of tears over [him], lost a lot of sleep, eaten a lot of cake batter. Somehow, I had to move on. [Life] would be hell if I didn't shake loose from the grip he had on my heart. I most definitely didn't want to keep feeling this way, alone in a love affair meant for two. Even if he'd felt like The One. Even if I'd always thought we'd end up together. Even if he still had a choke chain on my heart.

For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.

It's the broken plans you have made that are the hardest to get over.

What kind of life am i supposed to have without you?You were the one good thing,the only good thing i ever found.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.

Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.

Although will never love anyone again, don't want to become bitter. Or creative.

How could she go on without him? And, at the same time, how could she go on knowing that every moment of their time together had meant so little to him

I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all.

There are certain people in my life who didn't care to be in my book. And so I cut them out. And I had broken up with somebody. And I was, you know, really upset and depressed. And so that was, you know, reasons to keep going.

The truth is that she told me she couldn't love me. When she said goodbye, she was saying goodbye forever. And yet. I made myself forget. I don't know why. I keep asking myself. But I did.