Richelle Mead Quotes

After all, life is not a Hindi movie.

Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy.

Life isn't what it's like in the movies.

You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'

In the real world, it doesn't always go your way like it can on a television show.

I thought my high school would either be like 'Beverly Hills 90210' or 'Stand and Deliver' - it was just a run-of-the-mill high school.

Not everyone gets a happily every after. Life is real and sometimes it's ugly and you just have to learn how to cope.

I was in a self-induced depression. Welcome to me Real World.

That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned.

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.

The real world is where the monsters are.

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

How plotless real life was!

I don't watch like Sci-fi or things like that, I'm always more like real life is so endlessly fascinating to me.

I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.

Life is so interesting... just every day life. I remember someone once saying: "Drama is real life with the boring bits taken out."

We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.

It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.

The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left.

Life is not what you expected it to be.

Well now what's the use in dreamin' You got better things to do Dreams never did work for me anyway Even when they did come true

A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.