203 Quotes by Lisa Wingate

Other people’s judgment doesn’t have any power unless you offer yourself up for trial, so don’t.

We’ve tried to set her straight, but you don’t set that woman anywhere. She’s like the value of pi. She just is.

No matter how much you want to cut your family out of your heart, you can’t. The bond is born when you are born, like an organ in your body. There is no surgery to remove it. When it is diseased, you live with a dull ache telling you that something inside you is not right.

Forgive me, Father. Forgive my weakness. Forgive my wondering. Bring me to those beautiful shores of home and let me content my feet in the soft sands of all that you have prepared for me. Let me be thankful for all that you have given, neither hungering nor thirsting for what is not my cup. Your.

I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not one that goes on forever and cuts all the way to the bone.

Every living creature needs to hear the beating of another heart once in a while.” Her words were quiet, almost as if she were only thinking them, not speaking at all. “Nothing God made on this earth is meant to go on its way alone.

I want them to see that there is no faster way to change your circumstance than to open a great book.

The train scoots along in a slow, lazy sway, like a mama rocking her baby, too lost in the look of her child to think of the day’s work done or the hard row ahead.

They showed me what a stable life could look like. If they hadn’t bothered, how would I have even known there was another way to live? You can’t aspire to something you’ve never seen.