1,627 Quotes by Richelle E. Goodrich

If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.

Be warned: A person content to sit with you and criticize others will speak critically of you out of earshot.

Walk with me for a while, my friend—you in my shoes, I in yours—and then let us talk.

Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side.

A session of boasting won't attract any real friends.  It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.

The fact is, the man who’d begotten me didn’t want me. In his eyes I should never have been born. And perhaps that would’ve been best. As it was, my existence had proven to be nothing more than a nuisance for everyone. I angered my father, brought strife upon my mother, irritated my teachers, and annoyed the other children who were forced to interact with me in school. All by simply being. When you aren’t loved, you aren’t real. Life is cold, like the stone against my palm.

Be thankful for your allotment in an imperfect world.  Though better circumstances can be imagined, far worse are nearer misses than you probably care to realize.

Every once in a while God allows you to stub your toe as a kind reminder to be grateful for the miraculous body attached to it.

Punishing a person for the wrongs of another makes about as much sense as throwing up to enjoy the meal a second time.