“ It's frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we might understand why. Richelle E. Goodrich
“ 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 its wings and lift us clear to the top of the beanstalk. Those few Jacks who hav… Richelle E. Goodrich
“ With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline. Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown. Richelle E. Goodrich
“ Giving advice is like seeing an elephant in someone’s path and suggesting they remove it. Heeding advice requires forcing the elephant to budge. Huge difference. Richelle E. Goodrich
“ It's easy to offer advice on trials that have caused you to stumble. It's harder to talk about those that have knocked you flat. Richelle E. Goodrich
“ Most are unaware of their tremendous worth and boundless potential, despite possessing both. Richelle E. Goodrich
“ A warm feeling fell over the boy. A mix of security and comfort, as if a blanket were wrapping its soft layers around his heart and nuzzling him snuggly. Gavin loved his mother, and he would be foreve… Richelle E. Goodrich
“ Mystery, why so attractive to me?You blind me with fear, place hope on my tongue, and with a cold kiss draw me forward. Wary and trembling, I follow. Richelle E. Goodrich
“ Abandoned.The word alone sends shudders down a sensitive spine, troubling the thoughts of pained souls as their hurt swells in ripples. It is a sentence of undesired solitude often pronounced on the i… Richelle E. Goodrich
“ I understand it was Derian who spoiled everything. He purposefully tainted your view of me and forced you to go along with him. I know none of what happened was your idea or your desire, Eena.”She did… Richelle E. Goodrich
“ The road of life is paved with daily successes, a great number of them penny and nickle triumphs. Sadly, these little feats are often seen as worthless―even failures―because we dream of greater gain.… Richelle E. Goodrich
“ It is a greater triumph for the fearful soul who tries and fails than for the fearless who succeed. Richelle E. Goodrich
“ Sometimes the difference between success and failure is simply the degree to which you crave one over the other. Richelle E. Goodrich
“ I have lost my spark, I'm told, and should seek to rekindle it. Respecting the messenger, I wonder if this is true. I feel as if my spark endures, but having opened up to the world so bright, perhaps… Richelle E. Goodrich
“ Some live for their own joy and pleasure. Some live to ease the burdens of others. Then there are those who seem to exist for pain's sake only, that in the end the wrathful fire sent to consume their… Richelle E. Goodrich
“ Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again. Richelle E. Goodrich
“ A sincere and warmly-expressed apology can produce the same effects as morphine on a suffering soul. Richelle E. Goodrich
“ There are far too many silent sufferers. Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because they've tried and found no one who cares. Richelle E. Goodrich
“ They urge us to study our history that we might learn from past tragedies and errors. But sometimes I think it's actually a good thing that humanity so easily forgets. The haze that eventually claims… Richelle E. Goodrich
