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

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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

“It takes two to make a marriage work and two to make it fall apart.”
― Karen Kingsbury, A Time to Dance

“Forgiveness makes you feel better. As soon as you forgive, you're free.”
― Karen Kingsbury, The Chance

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

“As long as he was breathing, God's greatest task for him was not yet finished. His highest purpose in life was still unfulfilled. ... God still had plans for him.”
― Karen Kingsbury, The Chance

“He called it The Bridge because that was how felt about books. They connected the past and the present, the present and the future. Books brought people together and gave them a path to worlds they would not otherwise experience.”
― Karen Kingsbury, The Bridge

“And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“A life contemplating the blessings of Christ becomes a life acting the love of Christ.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“...life change comes when we receive life with thanks and ask for nothing to change.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“... be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness...”
― Ann Voskamp

“As long as thanks is possible, then joy is always possible.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“Life is so urgent it necessitates living slow.”
― Ann Voskamp

“God is good and I am always loved.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

“When one heart opens to another heart, it usually results in love.”
― Robin Jones Gunn, Echoes

“Sometimes the best answers to prayer are the ones God doesn't answer.”
― Robin Jones Gunn, Surprise Endings

“Lord Jesus,' Christy whispered, 'I want You to hold the key. I want You to decide what should happen in my heart's garden. I want You to let in or send out anything or anybody You want. Especially with guys. I don't want to ever unlock that gate again. I want you to open it only when the right man comes along. Take the key, Lord. Take all my keys. I'll wait for you.”
― Robin Jones Gunn, A Promise Is Forever

“Who needs a house? I'm talking about your heart. You have plenty of guest rooms there. And that's what you do. You open your heart to people. You keep lovely little rooms in there, just waiting for your friends to come visit. People feel as if they can come right in, just as they are. You don't entertain, you love. That's what lasts. That's why people like me feel as if I will always be your friend. You hold a special place for me in your heart.”
― Robin Jones Gunn, I Promise

“When the devil comes knocking on your door simply say "Jesus, it's for you.”
― Robin Jones Gunn, Sunsets

“The key is for you to discover what you love to do, what you were created to do, and then do it for the people around you with love. That is the abundant life, dear girl, no matter where in the world you live.”
― Robin Jones Gunn, Finally and Forever

“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”
― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember