Storm Shultz > Storm's Quotes

“I want to go to the party!’
‘I said no.’
‘I’ve been totally good.’
‘You shot me with an arrow.”
― Jenny Colgan, Meet Me at the Cupcake Café

“Everyone deserves a happy ending.”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“When she wanted to escape her life, she read books”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“How lost do you have to be to let the devil lead you home?”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“What use is rearranging the furniture if you burn the house down doing it?”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“I'm any face in a crowd; just the Lord's way of filling in the gaps.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“If this isn’t hell, the devil is surely taking notes.”
― Stuart Turton, The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“You told me to give my concerns over to God, but then to not simply sit idly by and wait for Him to fix my life for me, but to look for opportunities that He might send my way if only I was observant enough to recognize those opportunities.”
― Jen Turano, Behind the Scenes

“But don’t you find it somewhat peculiar that when people gather, say, at church, matters of divine intervention are expected, but when they gather outside of places specifically relegated as places of worship, the topic of God or anything relating to Him seems to become rather uncomfortable?”
― Jen Turano, Behind the Scenes

“You must let God’s love heal you.”
― Melanie Dickerson, The Fairest Beauty

“Yahweh is the creator of all there is. He is the most real thing, the only eternal thing. Our hearts stop beating, our eyes will close, the mountains may someday crumble, the trees will wither away, but Yahweh will always be.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Counted with the Stars

“Too little information and you're blind, too much and you're blinded.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“I know,” said Polly, and as gently as she was able said, “Have you thought about maybe another line of work?” “What, like making cakes?” Chris scoffed. “No, you see it’s kind of different for me. I’m a professional.” Polly decided it was best they leave before she hit him with the teapot.”
― Jenny Colgan, Little Beach Street Bakery

“bread, the cornerstone of eating, one of the fundamentals of life!”
― Jenny Colgan, Little Beach Street Bakery

“There will always be storms, Shira. There will be loss in your life, sometimes devastating loss. But if you let the wind and the rain overcome you, then you will never fulfill the purpose for which you were born, the reason Yahweh gave you breath and brought you to this time, to this place. There will be times when there is nothing you can do but survive, to place one foot after the other into the driving rain.”
― Connilyn Cossette, Shadow of the Storm

“I have passed through my family's life on the way to my own life, mon coeur.” He kissed my forehead. “And you are my life.”
― Storm Shultz, Yvette's Moon

“This was a game Jeanne and I played. We spoke what we wished into the air as if we were God writing history. But we both knew we weren’t God, and that our words served as nothing more than desperate prayers.”
― Storm Shultz, Yvette's Moon

“We lived in a strange dichotomy. We knew that the German soldiers were foul men, but some of them were our men. We knew that most would kill us in our own beds, but there were still boys and men who had been forced into this. We wanted to hate them, but the love for our Henris or Alberts bound us. The terror of what would happen to our children or friends kept us silent.”
― Storm Shultz, Yvette's Moon

“As I read verse twenty-one, I stopped. Jael, a woman who had been minding her own business, had come across an enemy of God, and she’d killed him. My heart felt as if it would grow wings and burst from my chest.”
― Storm Shultz, Yvette's Moon

“I am made for autumn. Summer and I have a fickle relationship, but everything about autumn is perfect to me. Wooly jumpers, Wellington boot, scarves, thin first, then thick, socks. The low slanting light, the crisp mornings, the chill in my fingers, those last warm sunny days before the rain and the wind. Her moody hues and subdued palate punctuated every now and again by a brilliant orange, scarlet or copper goodbye. She is my true love.”
― Alys Fowler

“The option I'd really like," he says matter-of-factly, "is to build a life with you. A strong, put-together kind of life. I know you're pretty good at assembly yourself, probably better than I am, in fact. So maybe it could be... a joint project?”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Party Crasher

“You can't fix something if you're hiding from it.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Party Crasher

“I’ve never understood the “sleep on it” thing. What, have a miserable, sleepless night, brooding on your problem, simply in order to do the thing you were going to do the night before—only now you’ve delayed by twelve hours. How is that a good idea?”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Party Crasher

“Maybe our family has changed shape. Maybe things aren't exactly like they used to be. And maybe they'll be even more different in the future. But whatever happens, we'll still be us.”
― Sophie Kinsella, The Party Crasher

“When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.”
― Mem Fox, Reading Magic: Why Reading Aloud to Our Children Will Change Their Lives Forever

“Writing a picture book is like writing 'War and Peace' in Haiku.”
― Mem Fox

“It matters not if the world has heard or approves or understands...the only applause we're meant to seek is that of nail-scarred hands.”
― B.J. Hoff