Wilder Quotes

It's only out of reach when you choose to keep your feet flat on the floor.

Show the world there's something to fight for. Your life is the proof that beauty can still be attained.

Money is like manure

Church should be like a dating service: tell you about His heart and then give you His contact information.

I respect the hell out of her for how hard she’s working to be okay. I just wish she’d let me show her how to let go, how to let herself hurt. I want to take her pain.

Hot heart-blood leaked from my face. From my eyes and my nose and my mouth. Not tears, because those would never stop. This was just liquid heartbreak seeping from my pores.

Let…it…go, ” he whispers, his voice a fierce, harsh sound in my hair. “No. No!” The last word is screamed. “You have to. You can’t bleed it out. You can’t keep pretending, drinking it down.

I bought this place for a pittance, because it was a dump. Rejected, abandoned, unwanted. Like me. I fixed it up. Made it mine.

Even speech was for them was a debased form of silence

I also know I'm not going to stay away. I'm going to grab onto her and let myself get cut. I'm good at pain. I'm good at bleeding, emotionally and physically.

It's not about being good. It's about being brave.

Laura Ingalls Wilder said, “Home is the nicest place there is.

They had been brought up to think that the domestic virtues were self-evident and universal

Yeah. I know why she cuts. I just don’t know the seed-reason. It’s deep inside her, and it’ll take time and patience to get it out of her.

When God says He got you, you're got. And you can't be un-got.

Educate thyself through reading

I don't have any need to breathe. You are my breath.