The Champagne Letters Quotes

“One must experience the dark to truly value the light. The stars are in the sky all day, but it is only at night that we can see and appreciate them. So, when things in your life seem bleak, look to the heavens. You cope with today and plan for tomorrow.”
― Kate Macintosh, The Champagne Letters: A Novel

“the purpose of travel is to expand our mind, and that does not require the traversing of distance, only the willingness to embrace something new.”
― Kate Macintosh, The Champagne Letters: A Novel

“Perhaps in some ways it is better to have difficulties early in one’s life so that you know you can survive them. You must learn to thrive even when it is hard,”
― Kate Macintosh, The Champagne Letters: A Novel

“I could not change the past, but today and tomorrow still stretched in front of me. All I could do now was make sure those mistakes did not define me.”
― Kate Macintosh, The Champagne Letters: A Novel

“But I believe that wine is a reminder that life itself doesn’t last. To save things for later because you don’t want to use them is to deny them the very purpose of their existence. Wine was made to be consumed. Life was meant to be lived, to drink deeply.”
― Kate Macintosh, The Champagne Letters: A Novel

“To me, the unknown, the exploring, is part of the pleasure. Wine is like a woman: complex, beautiful, ever changing, volatile.”
― Kate Macintosh, The Champagne Letters: A Novel

“Those who are smart are the first to admit what they do not know. It is the foolish who insist they know it all.”
― Kate Macintosh, The Champagne Letters: A Novel

“If a woman does not tell her own story, then a man will surely do it for her.”
― Kate Macintosh, The Champagne Letters: A Novel

“Often when you make a decision that can change everything, you don’t even know you’ve made it until much later.”
― Kate Macintosh, The Champagne Letters: A Novel

“The truth is that those who accomplish much are simply those who dare to try and are willing to endure failing in the pursuit.”
― Kate Macintosh, The Champagne Letters: A Novel

“In life, so many things are made better by being combined. From honey with cheese to sharing a meal with a friend.”
― Kate Macintosh, The Champagne Letters: A Novel

“When you don’t know how you will handle a situation, when it feels as if it will all be too much, then simply focus on doing the next right thing and go from that point.”
― Kate Macintosh, The Champagne Letters: A Novel

“Strength isn’t a fixed state. It is a series of choices in between moments of weakness.”
― Kate Macintosh, The Champagne Letters: A Novel

“While some may wish for hardship to pass them by, it is in hardship that we push ourselves. If a seed remained a seed, it would produce nothing. It is only by rupturing itself from the inside, through pushing itself through rock and soil toward the light, weathering storms and drought, that it finds its true purpose. And so, the same shall be with you.”
― Kate Macintosh, The Champagne Letters: A Novel

“When things are bleak it is human nature to think it will always be thus, but that is not true. One must experience the dark to truly value the light. The stars are in the sky all day, but it is only at night that we can see and appreciate them. So, when things in your life seem bleak, look to the heavens. You cope with today and plan for tomorrow.

Strength isn't a fixed state. It is a series of choices in between moments of weakness. I would not chose to lie down and give up, which meant even though I had no idea how I would weather the storm ahead, I had to stand up and at least try. I wasn't foolish enough to think it wouldn't be hard, but every person must determine the price of their own worth. When you don't know how you will handle a situation, when it feels as if it will all be too much, then simply focus on doing the next right thing and go from that point.

Will's betrayal had been the worst thing I could have ever imagined. But, the one advantage of bad things happening is that you learn that you're stronger than you think.
What is the price of your own worth?

You just remember to not borrow tomorrow's fears today, as they will keep you from action. And when all seems darkest, reach toward those who are reaching out to you.”
― Kate Macintosh, The Champagne Letters: A Novel

“With the impressionists I like to stand very, very close " Gabriel said, stopping his face barely an inch from the canvas. "The colors here are chaotic; it makes no sense. Then as you slowly move"-- he stepped back just a half step, and then another --"you can see the colors come together. No longer chaos, they work together; they become something greater. I think life is like this: in the moment, you can't make sense of it, but later, at the distance, it will all become clear.”
― Kate Macintosh, The Champagne Letters: A Novel

“Wine is like a woman: complex, beautiful, ever changing, volatile.”
― Kate Macintosh, The Champagne Letters: A Novel

“Don’t allow yourself to be intimidated by wine. It is meant to be enjoyed, to be savored. There is no right, no wrong. There is only how the wine works for you.”
― Kate Macintosh, The Champagne Letters: A Novel

“On such a beautiful day, it would be a waste to drink bad wine.”
― Kate Macintosh, The Champagne Letters: A Novel

“There’s much that can be learned from a woman such as her.”
― Kate Macintosh, The Champagne Letters: A Novel

“but the world was quickly teaching me it owed me nothing.”
― Kate Macintosh, The Champagne Letters: A Novel