Dear James Quotes

“She’d never known a book lover to grow up to cause trouble.”
― Jon Hassler, Dear James

“Three days in Prince Charming’s company and Agatha softened into the woman she'd been in Assisi. More smiles. Fewer frowns. Not so quick to criticize. She paused in her opinions to consider how they’d strike James. She paused in her eating to cast admiring glances his way. And now there she sat with a rare look of contentment on her face, her smile beaming up at James in the pulpit. Never in his life had Father Finn witnessed so clearly the transforming power of love.”
― Jon Hassler, Dear James

“One can't quit working to better the world just because the world is old and set in its ways. The enormity of a job is no reason not to do the job.”
― Jon Hassler, Dear James

“Silent they sat, James aware of her agitation but puzzled as to the cause, Agatha aware of his puzzlement but not trusting her voice to put him at ease. She was trying to control a strange commotion in her breast, a kind of flutter or tremor caused by his invitation to Ireland.”
― Jon Hassler, Dear James

“You could go along for years thinking you knew a person’s story and then come upon a chapter that knocked your socks off.”
― Jon Hassler, Dear James

“Her past seems a span of innocuous days. And her nights? Her most dramatic recurring dream in recent nights was one in which she had difficulty opening a jar of peanut butter.”
― Jon Hassler, Dear James