Atwode Quotes & Sayings

You're thinking too hard about how to respond to my stupidity. Have to be polite don't you? — Jodi Meadows

Isn't that what I always think when I get The Poor Motherless Girl Look? Like I've been shoved out of the airplane without a parachute because mothers are the parachutes. — Jandy Nelson

The words we speak to each other should leave stretch marks, not bruises. Love is always picky about what it says. — Bob Goff

But what do you think, my lady?'
'I think that she must be cruel if she wants to be loved,' Gertrude explained. ' For once a lady succumbs to the man's desire, he rejects her as unworthy of it.'...Was love like a hunger, easily satisfied by feeding? Or did it grow by what it fed on? — Lisa Klein

Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment can be trusted, that we live in a benign universe. — Peggy O'Mara