Nadège Richards > Quotes

“Someday we're going to look back on every shared smile and smile some more. It's moments like this that make life worth enduring.”
― Nadège Richards

“And even when they refuse to listen, I'll keep talking anyway, hoping on a slim chance that the things inside my head are worth something to someone.”
― Nadège Richards, 5 Miles

“Stop setting yourself on fire for people who just stand to watch you burn.”
― Nadège Richards, 5 Miles

“You asked what I wanted and I'm not going to lie to you. What I want most is the naked truth. I want to strip away every stubborn layer until you're bared to me. And then I'm going to show you how to love right.”
― Nadège Richards, 5 Miles

“You just know something is amiss, when you look at someone and long for something that is not yours or you cannot have. It's an absence--a loss of a heartbeat.”
― Nadège Richards, Burning Bridges

“The first kiss is the deepest."

"The last breath is the hardest.”
― Nadège Richards, 5 Miles

“This is a story about survival.
Letting go and learning to let in.
Getting along and moving on.
The truth about life.
The things left unsaid...”
― Nadège Richards, 5 Miles

“And you left your mark on me...
With the destruction of us, finally, we became no one.”
― Nadège Richards, 5 Miles

“I'm not sure I'll ever know the meaning of life or what comes for us after death, but I know it's more than the hysteria people make it out to be. It's about freeing your soul when no one else can; turning thirty and still feeling like you're seventeen. It's about taking chances on a whim, embracing the rain during the storm, and smiling so damn much that you start to cry. It's never regretting, never forgetting, and always being.

It's kissing underwater and touching in the dark. Loving even when you think it's emotionally impossible and surviving someway and somehow.

It's about living life with a full heart and an overflowing glass.

I live life on the edge. I dream, I care, and I belong.

I know there's a here and now.

I know that I want it.”
― Nadège Richards, 5 Miles

“I write because I'm free,

because I can,

because I will.



I write because I must,

because I'm breathing,

because I'd go crazy otherwise,

because it's who I am.



I write to make a statement,

to share my thoughts,

to discover myself,

to express my ideas.



But most of all, I write for future generations.

I write for love.

I write to inspire.

I write to encourage.

I write for me.”
― Nadège Richards

“Never limit yourself to what you can't do, but to what you have the power to do with what you have.”
― Nadège Richards

“I don't like forgetting," I said with my eyes closed. A single tear slipped down my cheek and I let it. "I don't want to forget these moments that constantly remind me of who I am, who I was, and who you are. I don't want to forget my past and all the things that have brought me here. With you.”
― Nadège Richards, 5 Miles

“There's a story here.

A catastrophic silence where our thoughts and feelings collide ...

Where your sweetness overrides my senses and our bodies move to the same tune.

The same song.
The same melody.
The same stroke.
The same rhythm.

It's our story, Trinity, and it's just begging to be told.”
― Nadège Richards, 5 Miles

“If kissing was a language I was sure we’d know it well. If it could measure the amount of love you felt for someone, our love was infinite after all. Even when we hugged I felt a special connection to him. It was in his loving embrace that I sought solace, where I found it, and where I would keep it. Our love was enchanting and magical, secretive and special. Overall, though, it was ours and we would treasure it.”
― Nadège Richards, Burning Bridges

“Our love douses us in flames. It's terrible and deep and wingless, but I'll burn here if you burn here too.”
― Nadège Richards, 5 Miles

“I saw a dead bird flying through a broken sky. I heard it, and it said, "The world will never understand.”
― Nadège Richards, 5 Miles

“Everything and everyone has a place to be, Echo. It’s just a matter of how they get there and when. You have a place; you just have to find it.”
― Nadège Richards, Burning Bridges

“Today is yesterday's victory, yesterday is tomorrow's conquest, and tomorrow is today's war. Though I face death, I am not fearsome.”
― Nadege Richards, Burning Bridges

“You never forget your first and true love, Ayden Grey. Not officially, not ever.”
― Nadege Richards, Deceiving Destiny

“When you have something this good, you keep it. Forever. And that's all the magic there is to it.”
― Nadège Richards, 5 Miles

“There is no sanctity. This is the downfall of innocence.”
― Nadège Richards, Asylum 54.0

“We only dream of things we know and people that we've seen... War and pain is all I know, it is all I can ever see.”
― Nadege Richards, Deceiving Destiny

“This proves the significance of individualism; being able to face the music, to embrace it, and then create something beautiful from it. You can’t truly be happy unless you’re unhappy sometimes and the pinnacle of life can only be reached when one can carve their own path.”
― Nadège Richards

“Is our blood not the same color? Do we not bleed the same or share each other's burdens? ... What makes you and I so different, Ayden?”
― Nadege Richards, Burning Bridges

“Give unto your all everything, for you never know when it will be your last...”
― Nadege Richards

“What lies behind the heart is a story to be shared with the world.”
― Nadege Richards

“There goes the girl with the wings," they say. "The damned dreamer with her eyes shut to the world."

"There goes the misguided soul with her heart buried in the ground."

They taunt. They lie. They lie. THEY LIE.

I don't pretend to understand life. THEY LIE.”
― Nadège Richards, 5 Miles

“I had no tears to shed nor a prayer for the deceased... There is no hope for the hopeless.”
― Nadege Richards, Burning Bridges

“I doubt I was much of a storyteller, but I would have put that smile in my book. On page 104, right next to the image of the Ward. I would have written it on my heart. I would have proofread it a thousand times under a thousand moons until a thousand tears thoroughly rationalized what it meant to me. Each time for when I’d met the darkness, and then succumbed. The smile read “you can’t break me’”—bold and in italics.”
― Nadège Richards, Asylum 54.0

“Some of us are born to live and to fight, Echo. Others are born to fight for their right to live. When those two collide, there’s hell to pay.”
― Nadège Richards