Ever After Quotes

“Love is not possible without sacrifice, and sacrifice is not possible without love.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“Wherever people are praying, there’s always hope.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“I promise to be with you, stay with you, love you, and laugh with you. I promise to listen and always look for new ways to show you how much I care. Most of all, I promise to lean on God through life's trials, tragedies and triumphs. Because if I lean on Him, you can always lean on me.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“Sometimes, life is so hard you can only do the next thing. Whatever that is, just do the next thing. God will meet you there.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“When you believe in something you put your whole heart into it.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“Don’t blink, young people. Enjoy every minute.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“Be still and know that I am God.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“But believing in God and having a relationship with Him were two different things.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“And suddenly, there it was. The one thing they'd never discussed, never dared to imagine. At first he said nothing, but he didn't have to. His eyes told her that he was feeling the same way that she was.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“Real love understands about love and sacrifice and is willing to live accordingly.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“Neither of them was guaranteed their next breath. So why borrow worry from tomorrow?”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“God's ways are better than man's.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“I told you... I've changed. God changed me.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“We must look to the cross, to the ultimate sacrifice, the true source of hope.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“It’s easy to step back and see something through the lens of personal bias.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“One day the dark clouds of this time would lift, because morning always came. No matter how long and dark the night.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“John 16:33 told the truth about life on earth: “ ‘In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“Real love lets you figure out the answers by yourself. It says good-bye for a season and prays for your return. Real love understands about love and sacrifice and is willing to live accordingly.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“But the world would be a different place because of him, a netter place. No matter how brief, his life had counted. It had mattered in a deep and lasting way... He was gone, but he had left behind his wisdom and laughter and a thousand precious memories.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“...None of them would be the same now that he was gone. But that pastor was right. His life was worth celebrating. And in that instant, she made a decision. She would cry when tears came, and she would mourn. But she would not rest there, not stay there. He would not have wanted her to live in a dark place, grieving the days his death had taken from her. He would've wanted her to smile at his memory. Celebrating every single day they had been given.

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She had lost much, so much. But with him, she could never look at his loss without also looking at h incredible gift she'd been given, the gift of knowing him, of loving him. (No matter how short the time.)”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“He would not want us to walk away from this room weeping and mourning. (There is a time for that, yes.) But today, he would want us to walk away celebrating his life, happy for all that he brought to us, and he would want us to be determined. Determined to live our lives the way he lived. With passion and purpose...”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“Don't go acting like you're not in love...I say life's too short. If two people are in love, then don't hide it.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“Ever after's worth waiting for. Don't you think?”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“Love never had enough time, but what time was left, he would savor. Every single second.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“and looked from Bo to the others. “When you believe in something, you put your whole heart into it.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“Because if I lean on Him, you can always lean on me.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“Somewhere along the path...a special sort of the love had taken root. An now it was deep enough that they could no longer ignore it, no longer spend an afternoon together without somehow acknowledging the feeling.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“Love never has enough time.

... Love never had enough time, but what time was left, he would savor. Every single second.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“I love that it's enough for you that we live happily right . And the whole ever-after stuff can come later.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After

“Well -" Emily sounded wonderful, full of life and love and purpose - "let's just say it could be raining every day and neither of us would notice.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Ever After