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“Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given.But it can be shared”
― Cecelia Ahern, The Gift

“Kids don’t come with owner’s manuals. You have to figure each of them out, and by the time you do, they’re gone.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Finding Noel

“Just like our story, the original Christmas tales were stories of searching, not so much for the lost, as for the familiar. Mary and Joseph sought in Bethlehem- the home of their familial ancestry- a place to start their own family; the three kings from the East journeyed beneath the sentinel star to find the King of Kings; and the shepherds sought a child in a place most familiar to them: a manger.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Finding Noel

“I once read that love is like a rose: we fixate on the blossom, but it's the thorny stem that keeps it alive and aloft. I think marriage is like that. Like my father said, the things of greatest value are the things we fight for. And in the end, if we do it right, we value the stem far more than the blossom”
― Richard Paul Evans, Finding Noel

“Nothing heals the soul like chocolate," she said. "I just love chocolate. It's God's apology for broccoli.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Finding Noel

“sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having”
― Richard Paul Evans, Finding Noel

“...for we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges. And we learn that it's not the beauty of the image that warrants our gratitude--it's the chance to paint.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Finding Noel

“Usually life’s greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Finding Noel

“That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.”
― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“endless moments like this stretching before us. I loved him deeply, but I never really knew that every second we had together was a gift until he was gone.”
― Kristin Harmel, The Life Intended

“What do you think people should say to someone who’s just lost a loved one? I don’t think there are many options.” Petra thought for a moment. “If you knew the person who died, I think you should share a memory, something you don’t think they’d know about. The wilder the better.” “And if you didn’t know the person who died?” “Then you should ask for a good memory that best describes him or her. Let the grieving person have a moment with that person again.”
― Loretta Nyhan, Digging In

“At his service, everyone said he was still with me, but the truth was that not only was he gone, parts of me went with him. I missed them, too, and like Jesse, they weren’t coming back.”
― Loretta Nyhan, Digging In

“That’s the beauty of a garden,” she said. “Some stuff works, some stuff doesn’t, and some stuff you think isn’t working ends up producing the following year. Keeps you living in a constant state of suspense, so whatever comes, you’re grateful for it.”
― Loretta Nyhan, Digging In

“I have come to believe that we do not walk alone in this life. There are others, fellow sojourners, whose journeys are interwoven with ours in seemingly random patterns, yet, in the end, have been carefully placed to reveal a remarkable tapestry. I believe God is the weaver at that loom.”
― Richard Paul Evans

“It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest.”
― Richard Paul Evans, The Walk

“Our lives are a story shaped by circumstance, twisted by Fate, and ultimately judged by how we reacted.”
― Mary Marchese, What Really Happened to Steve Nathan