203 Quotes by Lisa Wingate

Nothing takes you from thirty years old to thirteen faster than your mother’s voice rebounding up the stairs like a tennis ball after a forehand slice.

Happiness doesn’t grow where impatience grazes.

The thing about so many of the kids here – country kids, town kids, a sad majority of these kids – is that their norm is constant drama, constant escalation. Conversations start, grow louder, get ugly, get personal.

Oh, child. The best thing is to know. I always tell ’em, best to be who you is. What you is deep down inside. Ain’t no other good way of livin’.

Parenthood is the only career in which the better you do your job, the sooner you’re fired.