43 Quotes by Wendy Walker

In spite of everything she did that she shouldn’t have done, and everything she didn’t do that she should have, something that felt like love was in her and she would take it out at times like this and show it to us and make us hunger for more. All of us, each in our own way.

With youth comes the inability to know what’s going to happen as a decision is played out. It is one of the greatest shames of the human experience that by the time we know how to conduct ourselves in an appropriate manner, there’s little conducting left to do.

We are small, inconsequential beings. It is only our place in the hearts of others that fills us up, that gives us our purpose, our pride, and our sense of self. We need our parents to love us without condition, without logic, and beyond reason. We need them to see us through lenses warped by this love and to tell us in every way that just having us walk this earth fills them with joy.

We are small, inconsequential beings. It is only our place in the hearts of others that fills us up, that gives us our purpose, our pride, and our sense of self.

White lies, black lies, a million lies a million times every day, everywhere, by every one of us. We are all hiding something from someone. This.

Sitting on my bed with all these things I used to love but not loving them anymore, I just wanted to set them on fire. That’s when I knew I was never going to be all right again.

Reading parenting books – and all self-help books, as far as I’m concerned – is the equivalent of learning math from a dog.

But Owen agreed to settle, to spare the children. Anyone who’s worked in that field knows that the person who cares more about the children usually loses.

Feelings do not require justification.