Richelle E. Goodrich

Quotes

• “The interruption did nothing but earn her a similar slap, as I’m sure she knew it would. Sometimes I wondered if my moth...”
• “On Easter we wrap up pretty, little decorated eggs symbolizing life and renewal. We do this because of the intangibility...”
• “If you love something, you find a way to have it in your life. Opposers may take away your means and tools, but you simp...”
• “I walk at night under a moonless sky. Only the terrain guides my steps, yet my footfall is as sure as if a dozen suns li...”
• “My shoulders, broad and sculpted thick, were designed for two useful purposes. The one, to carry heavy loads like cedar ...”
• “Reality and fantasy are not two separate spheres but one whole. They are like a world's atmosphere―reality behaving as a...”
• “Though I adore the idea of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, Sandman, the Tooth Fairy, and such luminary characters—especia...”
• “Have you ever felt as if your dreams were more memorable, more alive, than what you knew to be reality? Have your dreams...”
• “When you do fall in love with me, Eena, I don’t want it to be because I gave into your demands, but because your heart g...”
• “Severing our young and fragile friendship was a sad ordeal, but sadder still was the fact that this friend found it so d...”
• “For things I am not thankful for―experiences I would never volunteer to relive―I recognize how they have changed me. My ...”
• “It is easy to say I am thankful for the sweet and beautiful things in life: flower gardens, ice cream cones, diamond rin...”
• “A guilty conscience pushed me to try harder—which I did for what seemed like a tremendous amount of wasted time, staring...”
• “The road of life is paved with daily successes, a great number of them penny and nickle triumphs. Sadly, these little fe...”
• “Why is it we must suffer the loss of something so dear before we realize what a treasure we had?Why must the sun be dark...”
• “Life is a test.  It was designed to be so.  It is where we taste the bitter and the sweet; where we feel pain and pleasu...”
• “I believe life is an education meant to teach us the need to be better people.  And I believe this learning often takes ...”
• “The earth provides us a brand new beginning every twenty-four hours. It is a repeated invitation to breathe in the cool ...”
• “Never give up.This applies to more than goals and dreams, it is a maxim for basic daily struggles. It shapes one's life,...”
• “They tell me you're the best and the worst thing to have happened to me, but I do not see how it can be both. For if my ...”
• “When you devalue ethics and morals by proclaiming that our attitude toward them should be casual or lenient, you can't b...”
• “God cries for us in the same way we cry for others. His tears most often spill over for the pain and suffering caused fr...”
• “What would it be like to live as a butterfly, being admired by the world for your color and beauty and grace? What would...”
• “Have you ever pondered the miracle of popcorn? It starts out as a tiny, little, compact kernel with magic trapped inside...”
• “The sun, moon, and stars God gave to the world, but He embedded their glories in your countenance just for me. Woven in ...”
• “For whatever reason, there are people we like and people we don't like. It's hard to say why, and often a difficult opin...”
• “People will insist on building high and wide barriers directly in your path, often with the intent of closing you in. If...”
• “Personal problems appear big because we press our nose to the glass to observe them. This only serves to magnify our tro...”
• “Turn around….you’ve got grass and dead flowers…”My fingers naturally began to comb through my long, black strands, shaki...”
• “Autumn is a cunning muse who steals by degrees my warmth and light. So distracted by her glorious painting of colors, I ...”
• “Take it one step at a time—inarguably wise advice. And yet we all take a running leap, hoping the wind will catch us on ...”
• “A princess once carefully kissed a porcupine to be kind, upon which he began to think himself a prince. He then dressed ...”
• “There is no such thing as constructive criticism. There is constructive advice, constructive guidance, constructive coun...”
• “Life isn't a lazy cruise on some endless, calm, and temperate sea. Life is a raging ocean with swells and tidal waves th...”
• “Yes, he knew he was falling in love, her way. And the worst part was, as disabling as he found the emotion to be he crav...”
• “I have lost my spark, I'm told, and should seek to rekindle it.  Respecting the messenger, I wonder if this is true.  I ...”
• “Mothers were meant to love us unconditionally, to understand our moments of stupidity, to reprimand us for lame excuses ...”
• “Happiness, thou art naught but an illusion. Thy enchantments are cast upon my eyes, my mind, my spellbound heart. Depend...”
• “Every brush stroke on the canvas, every dab of color introduced, the fine textures impressed in the paint—this accumulat...”
• “To love is to accept a soul entirely, not wishing that the person was otherwise, nor hoping for change, nor clinging to ...”
• “Every person sees the world through lenses of his or her own design—individual goggles that alter focus and perspective ...”
• “A warm feeling fell over the boy. A mix of security and comfort, as if a blanket were wrapping its soft layers around hi...”
• “I love snowflakes simply for the reason that each one is unique—nonidentical to zillions of crystalized counterparts.  I...”
• “If every day you were to walk past the same individual and ignore him, never smiling or saying hello or returning any ki...”
• “I've a habit of placing a happy-face or a frowny-face on my calendar, depending on what kind of day I've had.  Often I s...”
• “Thank you, Mom, for the way you managed yourself during the childish, mean, selfish, insensitive, irresponsible, unreaso...”
• “If you couldn't sense heat, you'd not be alive. And if that heat never grew uncomfortable, you would never move. And if ...”
• “The pleasures of being a novelist are many.  But the greatest by far is the manner in which I live through my characters...”
• “I hate it when storm clouds roll in, heralded by dazzling claps of thunder and lightning that boast an ocean of tears. T...”
• “I dream of defeating tyrants and ogres as well as circumstances and consequences that I cannot conquer in life. I dream ...”