Beyond All Dreams Quotes

“Was there anything more inspiring than being able to look up and see oneself surrounded by thousands of books all the way to the ceiling three stories above?”
― Elizabeth Camden, Beyond All Dreams

“After all, everything in here is just pieces of paper with words and lines on them. They're not even very valuable.

Pieces of paper with words and lines on them have the ability to change the world...They always have.”
― Elizabeth Camden, Beyond All Dreams

“Making mistakes means you’re learning, growing, pushing… that you yearn for something and aren’t afraid to chase after it. You’re being creative and contributing to this world, even if it doesn’t work out as you hoped. Go ahead and make mistakes. For once in your life, quit playing it safe and make some spectacular mistakes… Make glorious mistakes that will echo through the ages. Make mistakes that no one has ever thought of! Don’t limit yourself, no matter how outlandish. Reach out and strive for something beyond all dreams.”
― Elizabeth Camden, Beyond All Dreams

“So long as she had access to enough light to read, Anna could entertain herself for years.”
― Elizabeth Camden, Beyond All Dreams

“Anna's words from long ago came back to him. "We are all beautiful but broken people. Jesus forgives us, even when we don't deserve it. That's a pretty good reason to be forgiving.”
― Elizabeth Camden, Beyond All Dreams

“If you don’t ever make mistakes, it means you aren’t dreaming big enough,”
― Elizabeth Camden, Beyond All Dreams

“She smelled of lemon and sunshine and a thousand Summer days filled with laughter.”
― Elizabeth Camden, Beyond All Dreams

“I've been alone most of my life because I'm the only person in the world I can rely on. For a few days I deluded myself into thinking you were someone I could believe in. That I could trust you and lean on you, that you would never lie to me. What a mistake I made.”
― Elizabeth Camden, Beyond All Dreams

“I need you to find me a recipe for poison," he snapped. "Something that can kill the varmints that riddle this town."
"Animal varmints, or the human variety?" She was so prim when she said it, earning a reluctant twist of his lips as he tried not to smile.”
― Elizabeth Camden, Beyond All Dreams

“The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.”
― Elizabeth Camden, Beyond All Dreams

“Metaphors are something grown-ups use when they can't set troublesome boys on fire.”
― Elizabeth Camden, Beyond All Dreams

“He stayed true to his convictions, despite the overwhelming pressure to capitulate.”
― Elizabeth Camden, Beyond All Dreams

“You don't believe in writing in books?" "Of course not. Nor do I dog-ear the pages, crack book spines, underline passages, or otherwise mistreat government property.”
― Elizabeth Camden, Beyond All Dreams

“I was born into a family of swinging fists and bellowing voices, but when I opened the pages of a book I found men of valor.”
― Elizabeth Camden, Beyond All Dreams

“Pieces of paper with words and lines on them have the ability to change the world,”
― Elizabeth Camden, Beyond All Dreams

“Once something is lost in a library, the odds of finding it again are minuscule.”
― Elizabeth Camden, Beyond All Dreams

“God had sent her someone who was exactly right to inspire her to make full use of the talents she'd been blessed with.”
― Elizabeth Camden, Beyond All Dreams

“It hadn't escaped her notice that when she let him believe the worst of her, still he vowed to stand beside her and work toward forgiveness.”
― Elizabeth Camden, Beyond All Dreams

“I was born into a family of swinging fists and bellowing voices, but when I opened the pages of a book I found men of valor. To anyone watching, it probably looked like I was reading a book in the front room of my father's house, but I was really in Paris, fighting alongside the three musketeers. Or twenty thousand leagues under the sea, or racing around the world in eighty days. They led me to the Holy Grail and to the Sermon on the Mount. Reading was my liberation, my Magna Carta, from hopelessness and tyranny.”
― Elizabeth Camden, Beyond All Dreams

“One of them is clearly wrong, and I'm not the type to let things go.”
― Elizabeth Camden, Beyond All Dreams

“This is a library," she said, trying to calm her heart to a normal rate. "We generally try to avoid howling like banshees.”
― Elizabeth Camden, Beyond All Dreams

“Now," Gertrude said as soon as they were seated, "tell me what's got you so upset, and don't bother denying it because I've known you too long not to recognize the anxiety radiating off you.”
― Elizabeth Camden, Beyond All Dreams