35 Quotes by Laura Wiess

How can you make someone love you when they won’t? How long are you supposed to keep trying?

It’s okay. Don’t push her, Sharon.

It’s just that instead of erupting and annihilating our tormentors, we destroy ourselves instead.

Being user friendly doesn’t mean you’re going to be loved.

My mother plants her hands on her hips, peevish. “Is that the best welcome you can come up with? Why don’t you come over here and give your father a hug?” Hug him? Touch him? How can she even suggest it?

How can you make someone love you when they won’t? And what if that person happens to be your mother?

My father’s release date was given to all the local cops, school administrators, and youth group leaders.

Physical imperfections have always offended him, but apparently my bad hygiene wasn’t repellent enough. Perhaps Ms. Mues’s full-blown adulthood will be.