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“I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.”
― Scott Corbett

“I'll be a story in your head. That's okay. We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? 'Cause it was, you know. It was the best. The daft old man who stole a magic box and ran away. Did I ever tell you that I stole it? Well I borrowed it. I was always going to take it back.”
― Steven Moffat

“We are all stories in the end, just make it a good one eh?”
― The Doctor Matt Smith

“There’s a wonderful charm to ordinary, everyday moments, and the people who remain through them.”
― Joanna Davidson Politano, Finding Lady Enderly

“Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It's not the time that counts, it's the person”
― The Doctor

“The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.”
― Jane Austen, Love and Friendship”
― Jane Austen

“To be friends first. To honestly and genuinely like the person that you marry, aside from all the love and romance and other details. Because if you don’t, she said, ‘when the fights come, and they will, how will you remember that you love him when you don’t even like him?’ ” Lily”
― Rebecca Connolly, A Tip of the Cap

“He only wanted her. There wasn't enough real estate in his heart for anyone but her.”
― Becky Wade, Sweet on You

“I am and always will be the optimist, the hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improblable dreams.”
― Matt Smith

“Everything we say and do, everything we commit ourselves to, and every situation, location, and relationship we experience is experienced between the already and the not yet. You will never understand the things you face every day until you understand that you live in the middle. Everything in your life is shaped by what the middle is like.”
― Paul David Tripp, What Did You Expect?: Redeeming the Realities of Marriage

“God decided to leave you in this fallen world to live, love, and work, because he intended to use the difficulties you face to do something in you that couldn’t be done any other way.”
― Paul David Tripp

“She'd been hired to protect him. But he'd come to a place where he'd do anything, give anything, risk anything to protect her.”
― Becky Wade, Her One and Only

“I can only please one person a day... Today is not your day & tomorrow isn't looking good either.”
― N.J. Nielsen

“What I've learned is that the past might be challenging and the future might be unsure. And that's okay. The present is all we're given, anyway. When we get to the future, God will be there. He'll supply whatever we need for each day.”
― Becky Wade, True to You

“Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well... not yet, give me time and a crayon.”
― Matt Smith

“This was thing about temptations. God didn't take them away. They were there - powerful and still needing to be dealt with. If you gave them an inch of leeway, they had the dark strength to take you under.”
― Becky Wade, Her One and Only

“Do not lose hope. Remember, trials are merely opportunities for faith to grow.
(Winning Miss Winthrop)”
― Carolyn Miller, Winning Miss Winthrop

“He was attempting to prove to himself and God that he was indeed the new creation the Bible said he was.”
― Kristi Ann Hunter, A Lady of Esteem

“Love, real love is not a romantical whim. It is a choice - "
"You make it sound so appealing."
"A choice I gladly make every day, because I love Catherine, and wish to put her feelings and considerations ahead of my own."
(Miss Serena's Secret)”
― Carolyn Miller, Miss Serena's Secret

“He was defeated. Competitive him, who'd spent most of his life perfecting the art of winning. He'd been trounced by a woman. Killed with one look from those hazel eyes.”
― Becky Wade, My Stubborn Heart

“He could look into your eyes and without saying a word assure you that you were the most fascinating woman in the world and call you beautiful in six languages.”
― Becky Wade, Meant to be Mine

“Funny thing about prayers. God hears them. But you just never know if, when, or how He's going to answer them.”
― Becky Wade, My Stubborn Heart

“Saint Bo, a man christened with the miraculous ability to gentle horses, nervous women, and one year olds.”
― Becky Wade, Undeniably Yours

“Where there's God, there's hope," she said. "And where there's hope, there can be healing.”
― Becky Wade, A Love Like Ours

“So . . . I am the someone you were speaking of earlier?
Yes. You're my someone.
You're my someone, too.”
― Becky Wade, True to You

“He never promised us that we wouldn't suffer. But He's too just not to redeem it. And He does promise us that He won't leave us. That He'll be with us through the worst. That He loves us.”
― Becky Wade, My Stubborn Heart

“Nora wasn't a football fan. Who had time to watch football when there were so many fantastic books in the world yet unread?”
― Becky Wade, True to You

“Reason number five hundred why it was advisable to have oneself for a boss: Even when you hadn't earned it, you could still treat yourself to a coffee break.”
― Becky Wade, A Love Like Ours

“Corbin was about as trustworthy as a toddler with a permanent marker.”
― Becky Wade, Falling for You

“When Willow took the long view of her dad's story, she could see plainly how God had taken her dad's failures and sorrows and created something beautiful out of them. Why was it so hard for her to accept that God could do the same for her? Was her faith too small? Or was her regret too big? Perhaps her regret was so big that it had kept her faith small these past four years.”
― Becky Wade, Falling for You