An Overdue Match Quotes

“God is the lover of your soul, Evangeline. He woos you every single day of your life, wanting you to fall in love with Him over and over again the way He loves you. He calls you beautiful, beloved, and lavishes you with more tenderness and affection than a groom does a bride on their wedding day. And nothing can change that. Not an autoimmune disorder or physical changes in appearance. Certainly not hair loss. He loved you from the beginning, and He’ll love you for all time.”
― Sarah Monzon, An Overdue Match

“I concede it’s safe to say most people have a base desire to be liked and accepted, but it’s dangerous if we start living and making decisions that will only please the people around us and not make us happy.”
― Sarah Monzon, An Overdue Match

“Because books are more than just paper and ink. They’re a portal leading to anywhere you ever wanted to go—heart, mind, or soul.”
― Sarah Monzon, An Overdue Match

“. . . for to mistreat a book is most certainly a punishable crime.”
― Sarah Monzon, An Overdue Match

“I think your grandmother means,” Grampie says, “that we prayed you’d let that brilliant light within you shine again and not let anyone dull it. That you’d stop running away from love long enough to see that love will never stop pursuing you.”
― Sarah Monzon, An Overdue Match

“You are loved. You are loved. Tai said the same thing, but this is different. Deeper. Ancient. Not a romantic love, but a never-ending, never fading, eternal, supernatural type of love. “God has never stopped wooing you, Evangeline. He is the lover and romancer of your soul.”
― Sarah Monzon, An Overdue Match

“Alopecia, he read. An autoimmune disorder in which the immune system attacked hair follicles. Some people experienced balding in spots. Others, a total loss of hair on their scalp. And for some, he read on, a complete loss of hair across the entirety of their bodies. Alopecia universalis was a rare condition, and less than ten percent of people who experienced the disorder ever had their hair grow back.”
― Sarah Monzon, An Overdue Match

“Bravery isn’t the absence of fear.” “No?” Her eyes watered. “What is it then?” He squeezed her fingers. “Bravery is just the voice telling fear he can’t win today.”
― Sarah Monzon, An Overdue Match

“And that leaves romance. This genre took me a little longer than the others to realize I also didn’t qualify for a leading role. My ex-fiancé, Brett, was the first to let me in on the secret, although I missed the clues to begin with because, as I’ve established, I’d never make it as a mystery-solving sleuth. But looking back, I can see the hints along the way even before he sat me down for the big reveal. The ebbing interest in his eyes when he looked at me. The loss of touch that coincided with the loss of my hair. The tie of attraction that had at one time bound him to me unraveling, until one day it just wasn’t there anymore. At least for him. At first, I convinced myself Brett’s actions and words had nothing to do with my heroine status and everything to do with demoting him from leading man to villain. I mean, it was classic villainous behavior for him to have such a shallow depth of feeling that he was no longer attracted to me and stopped loving me when I developed alopecia, an autoimmune disease in which my T cells sound the bugle cry to attack my hair follicles like the swarm of bees that kept Winnie the Pooh from the honey in the tree (that’s probably a strange analogy, but I subbed for Martha at story time yesterday and the toddlers and preschoolers made buzzing sounds when we came to that page, so it’s still fresh in my mind).”
― Sarah Monzon, An Overdue Match

“A book doesn’t have feelings, but it does have a soul. Life exhaled into every word by the author and then breathed into each person who reads those same words. So, in a sense, books are both alive themselves and give life to others simultaneously.”
― Sarah Monzon, An Overdue Match

“A book doesn’t have feelings, but it does have a soul. Life exhaled into every word by the author and then breathed into each person who reads those same words.”
― Sarah Monzon, An Overdue Match

“Libraries aren’t famous for their penal codes, but some literary offenses deserve due punishments.”
― Sarah Monzon, An Overdue Match

“The conversation from last night replays through my mind like a piece of dialogue highlighted on my Kindle and posted to Goodreads.”
― Sarah Monzon, An Overdue Match