An Unexpected Frost Quotes

“So, here’s how it’s going to be,” she continues. “The doctor says I’ve only got a few months to live.” Tucker’s mouth flies open and panic distorts her features. She rises slowly from the couch and stumbles toward the front door. Opening it, she goes into Ella’s front yard. Ella makes a move to go after her when suddenly she hears a cry from outside that makes her blood turn cold. It sounds as if someone has taken the scream of a screech owl and the howl of a coyote and mixed them in hell. Ella has a memory of reading The Hound of the Baskervilles as a child and trying to imagine what the eerie howl of the hound must have sounded like. Now she is certain she knows what it sounded like and why even the intrepid Sherlock Holmes was unnerved upon hearing it.”
― David Johnson, An Unexpected Frost

“Getting stuck on the past will weigh you down and looking into the future will only create worries.”
― David Johnson, An Unexpected Frost

“don’t ever let your focus be so much on the one cloud in the sky that you miss noticing the unending expanse of beautiful blue and the brilliant, shining sun all around.”
― David Johnson, An Unexpected Frost

“You just try each day to let go of your bitterness and anger toward that person. Some days you’ll do pretty good, and some days you’ll think you’re not getting anywhere. But you got to try every day.”
― David Johnson, An Unexpected Frost

“me carrying around all my anger and hatred was turning me into someone I didn’t like. And when you don’t like yourself, you live a pitiful life. The only way out of that hole was for me to start forgiving some folks.” Tucker’s hands close into fists. Through gritted teeth she says, “But m”
― David Johnson, An Unexpected Frost

“But when you lose what is most important to you, it gives you a chance to reevaluate things.”
― David Johnson, An Unexpected Frost

“try hard to live one day at a time and live each day to its fullest. I’m not waiting until I reach a certain position or juncture in my life to start enjoying life. I enjoy today, no matter what today brings.”
― David Johnson, An Unexpected Frost

“Connie said that eighty or eighty-five would be a full life. A full life. But the number of years a person lives has nothing to do with whether or not they’ve lived a full life. Eighty years is a lot of years, I guess, when compared to twenty years. But just because a person has lived a lot of years doesn’t mean they’ve lived a full life.”
― David Johnson, An Unexpected Frost

“She says nothing matters but this moment right here, right now. She says she focuses on one slice of time at a time. Getting stuck on the past will weigh you down and looking into the future will only create worries.”
― David Johnson, An Unexpected Frost

“Be proud of who you are because color has nothing to do with the quality of a person’s life. That’s what I learned from him. No one can take that away from you.”
― David Johnson, An Unexpected Frost

“Ever’ one o’ these hairs is a medal. They’s medals for things I’ve had t’ deal with an’ overcome in m’ life. I wear ’em proud. Besides, Miss Ella says m’ white hair gives me character, whatever that”
― David Johnson, An Unexpected Frost

“Carter nods. “Exactly. Now think about it, Tucker. Someone walked up to that young, tender sapling and, without any regard for what was right or wrong, took out a long, sharp steel steeple and hammered it deep into the tree to hold the wire in place. It probably tore the bark and splattered sap into the air. The tree didn’t ask for it and certainly didn’t deserve it to be done. If you think about it, it was a cruel thing to do to such a young thing.” Tucker’s face and eyes redden. “But that young sapling decided it wasn’t going to be destroyed by its wounds. It decided to prove it was bigger than the person who harmed it. It accepted the hurt, embraced the experience, and grew around it. That, Tucker, is what forgiveness is.”
― David Johnson, An Unexpected Frost

“Exactly,” Ella agrees. “You may not know this, but putting that seed in the ground actually causes it to die. But just before it dies, it releases something that’s been hiding in it its whole life. It’s something no one can see. It’s the beautiful plant that finds its way upward into the brilliant sunshine above the ground. That beautiful plant comes from that plain-looking seed.” April stares, thinking about Ella’s”
― David Johnson, An Unexpected Frost

“don’t ever let your focus be so much on the one cloud in the sky that you miss noticing the unending expanse of beautiful blue and the brilliant, shining sun all around. What I do”
― David R. Johnson, An Unexpected Frost

“number of years a person lives has nothing to do with whether or not they’ve lived a full life. Eighty years is a lot of years, I guess, when compared to twenty years. But just because a person has lived a lot of years doesn’t mean they’ve lived a full life.”
― David R. Johnson, An Unexpected Frost

“But that young sapling decided it wasn’t going to be destroyed by its wounds. It decided to prove it was bigger than the person who harmed it. It accepted the hurt, embraced the experience, and grew around it. That, Tucker, is what forgiveness is.”
― David R. Johnson, An Unexpected Frost

“Exactly. Now think about it, Tucker. Someone walked up to that young, tender sapling and, without any regard for what was right or wrong, took out a long, sharp steel steeple and hammered it deep into the tree to hold the wire in place. It probably tore the bark and splattered sap into the air. The tree didn’t ask for it and certainly didn’t deserve it to be done. If you think about it, it was a cruel thing to”
― David R. Johnson, An Unexpected Frost

“Getting stuck on the past will weigh you down and looking into the future will only create worries.”
― David R. Johnson, An Unexpected Frost