Richelle E Goodrich Quotes

Sipping teawith gleebeneath a gooseberry tree.I wish Alice were here.Oh, my dear,do not fear,she will be.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Sound.Noisethe air employs.Melodies sweet.Tweet, tweet, tweet.Soft. Loud.A roaring crowd.Cluck. Caw. Crow.Tet, tet. Tis, tis.Guttural growl.Harrowing howl.Drip, drip, drip.Tap, tap, tap.Moan and groan.Endless drone.Ding, dang, dong.A church bell song.Vibrations in my earto hear.Sound.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I slay dragons at night while you sleep. I see by the way your face contorts how they exist in your dreams. Willing a magic sword, I plunge into your deepest nightmares and swing at the beasts with all my might, dodging flames exhaled by monsters that would eat me alive to go on torturing the fair one I love. I see your face relax, eyes still drowsily closed, when the mighty dragon is slain. It may be that my fingers rub soft circles on your forehead as I imagine my brave fight as a knight reclaiming your dreams. You smile under the spell of my touch, and I am rewarded. And so, my love, as I await the dawn, I stand ready to slay dragons while you sleep.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I scared a little porcupineand caught a quill in my behind.It hurt so badly in my tail,but tugging on it made me yell.The porcupine was still around,so I complained. He simply frownedand said, Stop whining! Look and seehow many quills are stuck on me!

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Determined, I riseand face the dawn with resolve.This time I will win.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The sweetest melody that playson starry nights and wintry days,most soothing to my listening earsand calming to beleaguering fears,I call a symphony on air―the song of sweet, still silence rare.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

We try so hard to instruct our children in all the right things―teaching good from bad, explaining choices and consequences―when in reality most lessons are learned through observation and experience. Perhaps we'd be better off training our youth to be highly observant.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

You cannot appreciate what you have never experienced. Sadly, full appreciation tends to come only after the experience is past.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Helpful is happy.Selfish is sad.(It's not uncommon to confuse the two.)

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

If you never bother to say the words, why should anyone believe you ever felt them?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I don't doubt that you think you love me, what I doubt is your understanding of love.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I stumble and fall.I weep and struggle to rise.My mom feels it all.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

What is this thing of intangible substance that wreaks consequential havoc on our lives? What is this sensitive thread that runs through heart and mind, and when given the slightest tremor grasps hold of all sanity, dragging the afflicted down to insufferable depths or flinging him weightless to euphoric heights? What is this magic we would deem imagination, fantasy, or pretend if not for the evidence of power manifest by human consequences? Effortlessly controlling us, it affects the infected in an instant. It takes but one word, one thought, one act to become immersed. To stop it is hopeless. To stifle it, demanding. To think to master it is both improbable and pretentious. What is this invisible hand that blinds our eyes and reigns hearts with a string? It is nature's drug and poison we call emotion.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A great many problems could be solved by nothing more than a change in thinking.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Hatred is prevalent on this earth because it requires no real effort, unlike the investment it takes to genuinely understand a person.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Moments always blossom more beautifully in memories.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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 lit the way. I go to meet you under a leafless tree that never seems to grow or alter its shape. I am uncertain if it still lives or has learned to disguise its death. The same thought crosses my mind when I feel your cold fingers take my hand. It is not the tree I reflect

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Life can be awful. Life can be ugly.And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A great father is one whose children look up to him rather than away from him.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I can overlook the lie, what's harder to ignore is the grotesque way it has marred your character.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Lies don't fit snugly into disguises. Eventually the cloak falls off and you're left staring at the naked truth which is always an uncomfortable situation.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

When I say I love the silence, I'm not being entirely truthful. What I actually love are the abundant, delicate sounds that amplify when I'm silent. These curious creaks, mutters, and hums compel my imagination.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Afraid of offending with an off word or the slightest insensitivity, I keep an unobtrusive and silent distance. Nevertheless, my pursed lips and offish stance are perceived as cold, managing to offend all.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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 death resulted from your presence, an everlasting sleep would have me dreaming happily of us together. I see no bad in that. Therefore, you must be the best thing to have ever happened to me because you make the worst seem wonderful.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I love you because you loved me first. Yet you love me, saying I loved you first. Funny, our love thrives believing the other person started it.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It is neither trials nor relationships nor successes nor failures that define a man, but the choices he makes while handling them.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A liar deceives himself more than anyone, for he believes he can remain a person of good character when he cannot.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

You need tell me nothing, I already know your heart. Through your simplest choices you've given yourself away.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

People will insist on building high and wide barriers directly in your path, often with the intent of closing you in. If you treat these obstacles like fencing walls, they will prove mightily so. I choose to see them as grand towers meant to be scaled and conquered, providing an added victory as well as a great view of the journey ahead.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

There’s always another option.There’s always another one.It’s never only 'this' or 'that,'The moon or else the sun.Don’t sigh and choose the greaterOr lesser of two plights.But look to see the stars beyondFor options vast and bright.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It turns out the simplest choices have been far more important in the long run than I ever imagined.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Before you take that first curious, coerced, spiteful, or vengeful step forward, remember this: it’s a thousand times easier to slip into a muddy pit than it is to climb out of one.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Temptations don't appear nearly as harmful as the roads they lead you down.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

When thunderstorms roll in, you make a choice to either succumb with tears to the gloomy downpour, or smile and look for rainbows.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Be good.See good.Choose good.It's a no-brainer.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Your life is not a simulation, it's the real game. Play wisely.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It isn’t so much life’s problems that challenge us but the emotional turbulence stirred up while trying to deal with them. People possessing the gift of emotional detachment are lucky in that their personal problems seem far less problematic.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

You think I read your thoughts, but it's your eyes that speak to me. When they glisten with moisture, I see a depth of emotion stirring behind them. One tearful glance begs me for a reassuring embrace. When your gaze glazes over like a misty morning, I know I've lost you to personal cares. A sharp, narrow look will keep me at bay while a wink and twinkle and the flirty flutter of your dark eyelashes invite my company. The strength and duration of a stare gives your feelings towards me away. And when those wary eyes dart to avoid my notice, all of your hidden secrets are betrayed.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The only thing you can justifiably claim that life owes you is an equal measure of what you have given out. And even that is debatable.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich