Martha Woodroof > Quotes

“Worrying meant you were trying to control something you had no business trying to control”
― Martha Woodroof, Small Blessings

“It takes courage to be happy, you know-even when you keep moving. It takes guts to accept things as they really are and not blame life for being what it is.”
― Martha Woodroof, Small Blessings

“Children needed space more than overprotection. Parents who hovered were meeting their own needs, not their children’s.”
― Martha Woodroof, Small Blessings

“There’s all kinds of ways to die, and most of them don’t involve actual death, just the handing over of the soul to fear and anger and greed. Or despair. Very few people have the guts to deal with life on life’s terms.”
― Martha Woodroof, Small Blessings

“Sometimes, when it feels as if life has veered irrevocably off track, the track shifts in ways we never could have imagined.”
― Martha Woodroof, Small Blessings

“People so rarely talked about themselves accurately. They either made too much or too little out of everything. It seemed to Rose that you got to know people much more thoroughly by hearing what they thought and what they did, and then extrapolating the rest as a kind of interesting, intellectual puzzle. All you had to do was listen to the vehemence and passion with which a person talked about things other than himself or herself, and there the person was.”
― Martha Woodroof, Small Blessings

“Reality, with all its attendant complexities--i.e., other people--was inescapable...”
― Martha Woodroof, Small Blessings

“intentions in the world, cannot fix what is wrong”
― Martha Woodroof, Small Blessings

“Agnes Tattle was the only person he’d ever met who was strong enough to look life right in the eye and spit. It must be the mathematics in her background. Such courageous realism certainly didn’t come from the study of English literature.”
― Martha Woodroof, Small Blessings