Rachel > Rachel's Quotes

“I don't think reading is a pleasure I'll ever be able to abandon.”
― Jen Turano

“A Lady never sits on the floor.' A lady probably wasn't supposed to crawl on her belly through the dirt either.”
― Kristi Ann Hunter, A Noble Masquerade

“A lady never posted letters to an unrelated male. But the very writing of his name made her feel dangerous.”
― Kristi Ann Hunter, A Noble Masquerade

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“Spending time with you showed me what I’ve been missing in my life.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“I'm not sure anyone knows what they're looking for until they find it.”
― Kiera Cass, The Heir

“You can be brave and still be feminine. You can lead and still love flowers. Most importantly, you can be queen and still be a bride.”
― Kiera Cass, The Heir

“For a moment in time she had been a lady, someone who was wanted...”
― Melanie Dickerson, The Beautiful Pretender

“She was so lovely, it hurt his chest to gaze at her, especially knowing she was courageous and clever too.”
― Melanie Dickerson, The Beautiful Pretender

“If you die fighting, I want to die fighting with you.”
― Melanie Dickerson, The Beautiful Pretender

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“I should infinitely prefer a book...”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“And books! ...she would buy them all over and over again; she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their falling into unworthy hands; and she would have every book that tells her how to admire an old twisted tree.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“You challenge me to be a better person. And no one else does that, except maybe my mother.”
― Jody Hedlund, Forever Safe

“You can't be perfect. No one is. That's why we need God.”
― Jody Hedlund, Forever Safe

“And the only hope-perhaps the real hope he'd been missing all along-was found in God.”
― Jody Hedlund, Forever Safe

“You're safe now.”
― Jody Hedlund, Forever Safe

“Her face a mask of fury and determination.”
― Jody Hedlund, Forever Safe

“But she'd learned instead to hope in the one Beacon that would always be there, no matter what darkness came her way.”
― Jody Hedlund, Forever Safe

“She smiled, and her smile was filled with all of the sweetness and forgiveness that she offered so freely - and that he didn't deserve. But maybe, as with God, it was time to finally stop condemning himself and accept the gift.”
― Jody Hedlund, Forever Safe

“Obituaries were the final diary page of life lived, whether pleasant or tragic, full or barren.”
― Jaime Jo Wright, The Reckoning at Gossamer Pond

“Sometimes the Lord answered prayers at an alarming rate.”
― Roseanna M. White, The Number of Love

“Never in his life had he met anyone quite like Margot De Wilde.”
― Roseanna M. White, The Number of Love

“He apparently preferred dark eyes to ready smiles. Sarcasm to sweetness. Codebreakers to secretaries.”
― Roseanna M. White, The Number of Love

“She was worth waiting for. Worth seeking hour by hour, day by day, month by month. Year by year. Even if it took him a decade to convince her to be his, it would be worth it.”
― Roseanna M. White, The Number of Love

“He's still there, unchanged, even when we can't feel Him. When the grief's too loud to let us hear His voice.”
― Roseanna M. White, The Number of Love

“Her scowl was fierce and quick. "It was never feeling."
"Of course it was." He countered her scowl with a grin.
"It's just that you feel in numbers.”
― Roseanna M. White, The Number of Love

“Words weren't her language.”
― Roseanna M. White, The Number of Love

“Even the brave were once afraid. However well I might hide it, the truth is, I am terrified.”
― Hazel Gaynor, The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter

“By his grace, before I was even ready for it, I had been made a reflection of God, the ultimate restorer.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, Finding Lady Enderly