Richelle Mead Quotes

I don't like to use the word sacrifice.

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

I know the word 'sacrifice.'

No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it.

With everything great comes a price, always, right?

Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

… a reasonable price to pay

You know what I learned? Everything has a price.

Sacrifice really means giving up something good for something better.

There's nothing fair nor beautiful, but takes Something from thee, that makes it beautiful.

Whatever you compromise to gain, you will lose.

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, must empty ourselves.

Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it.

I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice.

I don't call them sacrifices. I call them exchanges.

You might win some, but you just lost one.

Everything good I've ever gotten in life, I only got because I gave something else up.

Pain pays the income of each precious thing.

But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.

There is no such thing on this earth as something for nothing.