Christmas at Sugar Plum Manor Quotes

“And yet that water went only where the Lord directed it. He sent it from the heavens. He poured it into the oceans. He carved those rivers and streams with the tip of His finger.
That same finger had carved her into who she was, able to receive that same life.”
― Roseanna M. White, Christmas at Sugar Plum Manor

“I know this world is a long way off from the ideals it was founded on, but that doesn't mean the ideals aren't worth trying to attain, does it? That we shouldn't stand up and defend others' honor?”
― Roseanna M. White, Christmas at Sugar Plum Manor

“To put a new spin on an old adage, one could lead a widow to a party, but one couldn't make her dance.”
― Roseanna M. White, Christmas at Sugar Plum Manor

“Maybe, just maybe, they'd grant that one could be a reasonable adult and still see the world with imaginative eyes and with a heart ready to believe.”
― Roseanna M. White, Christmas at Sugar Plum Manor

“Couldn't she at least tamp the enthusiasm down a bit? Mornings and rambunctious greetings didn't mesh.”
― Roseanna M. White, Christmas at Sugar Plum Manor

“It was the fault of those books he read. Far too many stories of romance and adventure and finding friendships in likely places.”
― Roseanna M. White, Christmas at Sugar Plum Manor

“But that's what Christmas is about, isn't it? The impossible becoming real. An infinite God becoming a fragile human babe. That perfect God making a path for us to come back to Him, and doing it in a way both spectacular and yet so mysterious, so hidden that people could and still do deny it.”
― Roseanna M. White, Christmas at Sugar Plum Manor