My Beloved Quotes

“With war raging around the world and suffering everywhere, how extraordinary, how beautiful this life could be. There were no words, really. No words.”
― Jan Karon, My Beloved: A Mitford Novel

“God’s love for his children wasn’t just for them to have and to hold, it was to freely, spontaneously give away—and to gratefully receive from others.”
― Jan Karon, My Beloved

“There should be an intervention for people who get clean but remain addicts, like Mama is addicted to grieving for herself.”
― Jan Karon, My Beloved: A Mitford Novel

“Do we want to be people who looked forward to being with family, only to get here and find a bunch of fakes trying to act like family? Is family just for the holidays? Or for all time? I never signed up to be family that meets once or twice a year, I signed up to be family even when we’re hundreds of miles apart, family who’s here for each other when prayer is needed, family who’s here for the tears as well as the laughs. If we’re family, we’re here. We show up.”
― Jan Karon, My Beloved: A Mitford Novel

“That’s one of the things friends are for—to listen to our repeat stories.”
― Jan Karon, My Beloved: A Mitford Novel

“In Holly Springs, he headquartered at the library. In Mitford, all he had to do was open the door to Happy Endings Bookstore and wherever his eye roamed, voilà!—three hundred and sixty degrees of possibility.”
― Jan Karon, My Beloved: A Mitford Novel