Richelle Mead Quotes

I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun.

I like books that explore identity and youth culture or rites of passage.

I liked seventeen-year-old me, I was happy when I was seventeen. I was this troubled goth kid that wore eyeliner and make-up to school and listened to punk-rock music and I loved my friends and I started to make music - I like seventeen-year-old me.

As a teenager, you're still discovering who you are, what your life is about, and who you want to be as a person. It's very intense.

I think there's a lot of honesty in that track. 'Smalltown Boy' was about leaving Glasgow but it was also about the people I had come to meet on my journey, especially when I was squatting in London.

I think probably everyone can relate to wanting to believe that your parents are one thing, and having to come to the realization that they might not be.

When I first saw 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' I thought: That's what my life is like. That's my day-to-day.

As a lonely teenager growing up in Virginia, I fed off any pop culture that could show me different ways of being from what I saw on 'The Cosby Show' reruns or read about in an Ann M. Martin book.

I'll remember my life as pre-'Lady Bird' and post-'Lady Bird.'

There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.'

The great thing about the story of 'Twilight', or the story of 'I Am Number Four' is that you get to deal with real issues of identity and what people are going through and the choice of who you're going to be, but it's all large.

I'd been writing my own coming-of-age story, and I got to take a lot of that energy and a lot of those moments and themes that I wanted to explore in a much smaller film and then apply them to 'Spider-Man: Homecoming.'

I know it's hard to believe that I'm no longer the young 'Zuri' everyone has grown to love, which I truly appreciate, but like every young lady, I'm growing, I'm maturing and finding myself at 16 years old discovering the joys and pains of the world we live in.

Inglewood for me was where I really found my voice found sort of the core group of friends that I still have to today.

I've been Rico since 10th grade.

A lot of my music is about self-discovery because I focus on my teenage years.

My music is about all these things that happen to you while growing up in search for some kind of truth.

I was definitely a late bloomer and didn't really come into my own until I was probably in my 20s.

High school is really when I came into my own.

I think of L.A. as my home now, in large part because I became the entity that I am in L.A. I always say to people that my coming-of-age happened in L.A., the unraveling of the person I was pretending to be for a long time, and then finding of the person I feel like I now am.

I'm not coming out trying to prove anything to anyone, like, 'Oh, I'm in assless chaps!' or 'I can't be tamed!' I've already been through that phase. I started at 23, you know?

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time . . . We are everywhere.

Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything.