Karen Kingsbury > Quotes

“Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.”
― Karen Kingsbury

“Real love never fails.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Forever

“sunshine is just beyond the clouds" Carl Joesph Gunner”
― Karen Kingsbury, Just Beyond the Clouds

“Love happens when people forgive.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Oceans Apart

“Life is too short for half-hearted connections and meaningless run-throughs.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Take Two

“I tell of hearts and souls and dances...
Butterflies and second chances;
Desperate ones and dreamers bound,
Seeking life from barren ground,
Who suffer on in earthly fate
The bitter pain of agony hate,
Might but they stop and here forgive
Would break the bonds to breathe and live
And find that God in goodness brings
A chance for change, the hope of wings
To rest in Him, and self to die
And so become a butterfly.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Oceans Apart

“Never be passive. Victories happen when you take charge of a game. You can't win by playing not to lose".”
― Karen Kingsbury

“But the Beast was a good person...the Prince looked on the outside the way the Beast was on the inside. Sometimes people couldn't see the inside of the person unless they like the outside of a person. Because they hadn't learned to hear the music yet.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Unlocked

“The next time that boy pursues you, he better do it like a dying man looking for water in a desert. When it's the right guy, you'll know, because he'll cherish you.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Leaving

“The truth was this: Love is a decision.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Redemption

“You can't base your decisions on anyone's opinion but yours and God's.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Redemption

“Pray on all occasions." Unlocked page 38.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Unlocked

“They'd had fun, for sure. They laughed and enjoyed being together. But if she was painfully honest with herself, something was missing. Something in the way Tim looked at her. She remembered her mom's word. "I saw the way he looked at you...he adores you." Maybe that was it. Tim looked at her on a surface level. He smiled and seemed happy to see her. But When Cody looked at her, there were no layers left, nothing her didn't reveal, nothing he couldn't see. He didn't really look at her so much as he looked into her. To the deepest, most real places in her heart and soul.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Take Two

“My parents used to say faith wasn't something you could pretend about. It wasn't real unless it looked like faith and acted like faith.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Oceans Apart

“A verse came to mind, one that has comforted Kari before. It was the shortest verse in the Bible: Jesus wept. If he cried over Jerusalem, if he cried over the death of Lazarus, surely he was crying now over the death of her dreams, the death of her marriage.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Redemption

“Her eyes held an endless kind of love for him.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Take Three

“The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Where Yesterday Lives

“New steps. That's what it amounted to. The two of them were learning the steps that would bring them together, a dance that would take them into forever. A dance that could be nothing less than God's plan for their lives.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Redemption

“Wow." Lisa motioned for Keith to stop for a moment. "Look at this place. It's like the perfect family house. The porch and the windows, even from here, it feels like the walls have seen a lifetime of love.”
― Karen Kingsbury

“He wished he had feelings for Andi, wanted to be interested in her...But there were 10 quick reasons why he wasn't interested. The biggest: Bailey Flanigan. He could hear her laugh from across the room. He sighed, and it felt like it came from the basement of his soul.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Take Two

“Perfect love drives out fear”
― Karen Kingsbury, Loving

“The Flanigan family had a love that could laugh through anything, a love that knew no color barriers or resentment.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Take Three