A Christmas Hope Quotes

“Life is frightening," Claudine corrected her. "And beautiful and full of strange and unexpected opportunities. This is one of them.”
― Anne Perry, A Christmas Hope

“But I have learned something good about myself. I can stand up to people who have more power than I do, and fight for what I believe in.”
― Anne Perry, A Christmas Hope

“She had never been beautiful—she had known that from the start—but she would like to have been loved, above all things. She would have to settle for being liked, perhaps for being trusted, respected.”
― Anne Perry, A Christmas Hope

“After all, the God she believed in cared for every soul, and what happened to the body left behind mattered not at all.”
― Anne Perry, A Christmas Hope

“You wanted a peaceful, comfortable Christmas, with all reminders of poverty, injustice, or other people's griefs well out of sight, so as not to disturb your pleasure. That isn't what Christmas is about, Wallace. Christmas is about offering hope to all people, not just those like ourselves. Christmas is about everyone: rich or poor, friend or stranger. The moment you exclude anyone, you exclude yourself.”
― Anne Perry, A Christmas Hope

“He actually cared. It was an odd friendship- awkward, grown slowly from beginnings of mutual contempt- but it was real nonetheless.”
― Anne Perry, A Christmas Hope

“She had never been beautiful- she had known that from the start- but she would like to have been loved, above all things. She would have to settle for being liked, perhaps for being trusted, respected. Best of all would have been to have had the courage to stand up for herself and fight for what she believed in.”
― Anne Perry, A Christmas Hope

“Dai Tregarron had called her Olwen, had spoken to her as if she were a creature capable of escape from the commonplace, not the pedestrian, middle-aged woman everyone else saw, incapable of imagination, even less of passion. He had seen who she wanted to be and given the dream a moment's life.”
― Anne Perry, A Christmas Hope