Richelle Mead Quotes

We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent.

You may have even an ex-wife or an ex-husband, but you can never have ex-children.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

I loved my nanny very much, but she was never a replacement for my mom in any way.

I do have an incredible relationship with my parents, and my mom, who I go to for absolutely everything, thank the lord. If I didn't, I don't know what I would do. But I guess, I think we all have those moments where we feel like we're so alone and have no one to go to.

I love my children to death.

My kids don't call me 'Mom' because I don't want them to. They're Michael's children. It's not that they are not my children, but I had them because I wanted him to be a father.

Just because you've been divorced doesn't mean you're not still a family.

When I was born, I was given to my uncle and aunt to raise as their kid because they couldn't have kids.

My two sisters and I had a very nice nanny at home in Morocco until I was 13. I remember my parents saying how she had insinuated herself into our family. They knew she would suffer when we broke away from her.

Fatherhood is great.

I've had a lot of mother figures. But by the time my mom came into my life, it wasn't a 'mommy' thing. It's more of an adult relationship.

Talking to your parents is a great idea - if you have that relationship with them.

I have a very close family. I have four older siblings: two brothers and two sisters.

My mother lives with me.

I was a mama's boy.

Both Dad and Granddad treat me like a friend.

I think any young person who is going into the same field as their parent whose parent has been very successful, it's complicated.And it was complicated for me.

You'd think family would be the one sure thing in life, the gimme? Points you got just for being born? So much thick, meaty stuff bound you to these people, so many interlocking spirals of history, genetics, common cause, and struggle that it should be the most basic of all drives, that you would strive to protect and love one another, yet this bond that should be the big no-brainer was in fact the hardest thing.

Caitlyn isn't someone to get over. She's someone to come to terms with, the way you have to come to terms with your parents, your siblings. You can't deny they ever happened. You can't deny you ever loved them, love them still, even if loving them causes you pain.

In family matters you can get over anything. That's one thing you'll learn as an adult. There's a lot you have to learn which is a lot worse than that. You'd never think of forgiving a friend for some of the things your parents did to you. But with friends it's different. Friends aren't the roll of the dice.

Your daughter is your child for life.

When you have a child yourself, you go back and think about how you were parented, how you were mothered and what your parents did for you, and you just want to be able to call and ask them.

I don't want to die before my parents die, especially my mother. Because I think that's tragic. Because I don't want her to get the chance to pick out what I'm going to wear for eternity.

There is no relation more intimately personal than that of parents to the child they have brought into the world; and there is therefore no relationship in which the community should be slower to interfere.