Richelle Mead Quotes

Even if we love someone very much, at times it happens that we forget about it.

Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind.

On the whole I prefer cats to women because cats seldom if ever use the word 'relationship'.

Love and hate always remember; it is only indifference that forgets.

Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.

There had been so many easy words between them that Daniel was guilty of nodding every now and then and tuning out the excess. He hadn't known, at the time, that he should have been hoarding these, like bits of sea glass hidden in the pocket of a winter coat to remind him that once it had been summer.

When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.

Most people don't remember names, for the simple reason that they don't take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for themselves; they are too busy.

The day I leave, you won't know how to pronounce my name. You could care less about me, and I should be dead and buried because there's not one media that will come and remember who Joe Arpaio is. That's the way it is in politics.

I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone.

I have a terrible time remembering exactly when my birthday is. Age is totally boring.

If I were straight and I were trying to seduce a woman, I could do it just by standing up at the table when she came back from the bathroom. It works. Every time I do that, all the straight men are sitting at the table and their wives are kicking them. "Look at that!" "You never do that for me!"

I find people confusing.

You have to trust that if you are calling my name in a way that is offensive to me, I'm going to share it with you. But you also have to know what your feelings are behind calling me "bell."

Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.

The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.

My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.

Duende I can't remember her name. It's not as though I've been in bed with that many women. The truth is I can't even remember her face. I kind of know how strong her thighs were, and her beauty. But what I won't forget is the way she tore open the barbecued chicken with her hands, and wiped the grease on her breasts.

I did some research on this a couple years ago," Augustus continued. "I was wondering if everybody could be remembered. Like, if we got organized, and assigned a certain number of corpses to each living person, would there be enough living people to remember all the dead people?" "And are there?" "Sure, anyone can name fourteen dead people. But we're disorganized mourners, so a lot of people end up remembering Shakespeare and no one ends up remembering the person he wrote Sonnet Fifty-five about

In my opinion when you speak about relationships between people, you are actually talking about everything in their world because everything is contained in that relationship.

If a man knew what a woman never forgets, he would love her differently.

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

I don’t think it should be socially acceptable for people to say they are “bad with names.” No one is bad with names. That is not a real thing. Not knowing people’s names isn’t a neurological condition; it’s a choice. You choose not to make learning people’s names a priority. It’s like saying, “Hey, a disclaimer about me: I’m rude.

If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

We don't really make friends, they make us.