Richelle Mead Quotes

We deserve each other, Luis … and I need you just as much as you need me. Hold me.” He steps closer, but hesitates. “If I do, mi chava, I can’t promise I’ll be able to let you go.

Right now, I wish I’d stayed because I want you at my side. That sounds pretty selfish, but I don’t mean it that way. You just never needed me that way; I said it to you once as I was leaving—that you love me, but you don’t need me. You don’t lean. But I admire that about you, and I could use some of your strength right now.

The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.

It drives me nuts how I rely on my wife for everything. I can't imagine a day without her!

I need you because I love you.

Please do not leave me, he thought. He could not bear a world without Alli. He realized how much he relied on her from morning until night. She was his only conversation. His only smile. She prepared their meager food and always offered it to him first, even though he insisted she eat before he did. THey leaned on each other at sunsets. Holding her as they slept felt like his last connection to humanity.

It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into one single person. It's giving that person a lot of power.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

In the early days, I was everything to David. I was his creative partner, his lover, his soul mate.

We might depend on each other a bit too much and use that as a crutch, but it's not entirely a bad thing.

I like the idea of a relationship where you can need and rely on each other and not feel needy and not feel like that makes you not independent.

I don't require sex for happiness - I need companionship. I need a partner I can depend on, that I can love and grow with.

Being codependent means that when you die, someone else's life passes before your eyes.

I trust you because I need you.

Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In loving he recovered his strength. But the truth is that he was no less vulnerable than Cosette. He protected her and she sustained him. Thanks to him she could go forward into life, and thanks to her he could continue virtous. He was the child's support and she his mainstay. Sublime, unfathomable marvel of the balance of destiny!

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

You can live without me." "I don't want to." I feared a love like this - that made us incomplete without each other. It was beautiful but treacherous, like snow that looked white and pure and lovely from the safety of your window, but when you stepped out to touch the softness, the cold first stole your breath, and then your will to move, until you could just lay down in it and let the numbness take you. yet I didn't want to be without him either, so I didn't chide him for the statement.

Trust and trust alone should lead us to love

Women anchor me. They're there when I need them. They're sensitive to me, and I'm sensitive to them. I'm not saying I've loved that many women.

Sometimes its nice when people you love need you.

But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.

Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key.

Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown of linden branches?

Love is about needing someone, about feeling as if the day isn't quite right if they're not there. Its about knowing that, no matter how bad a day you've had, the moment you see them again or hear their voice, the world is back in its place.

The more you rely on what you need, the more you become that which you rely on.