The Chocolate Garden Quotes

“Dreams are just visions we haven’t experienced yet.”
― Ava Miles, The Chocolate Garden

“sometimes you had to lose something to get something better. Tammy”
― Ava Miles, The Chocolate Garden

“For so many people marriage has come to mean a power struggle, and that causes a heap of problems, like one person getting their way and trampling all over the other person’s thoughts or wishes. But partnership is different.”
― Ava Miles, The Chocolate Garden

“known what to do with, had”
― Ava Miles, The Chocolate Garden

“Dreams are just visions we haven’t experienced yet. Doesn’t make them any less real.” As”
― Ava Miles, The Chocolate Garden

“Dreams are just visions we haven’t experienced yet. Doesn’t make them any less real.”
― Ava Miles, The Chocolate Garden

“see so many women who are successful in their careers while still doing everything at the home, from childcare to household chores. They don’t have enough time for anything, least of all to grow. It’s not a partnership. They don’t feel truly loved or supported one bit. Both people need to show up.”
― Ava Miles, The Chocolate Garden

“There’s a fine line between support and need, and it becomes blurred all the time.”
― Ava Miles, The Chocolate Garden

“She would be a lighthouse, shining brightly, and she would encourage them to nourish their every gift and dream. She would never impose her views of what they should do. She would nurture them and let them have their voices, becoming who God had meant them to be.”
― Ava Miles, The Chocolate Garden

“Who would have guessed that snapping off a dead bloom would generate a fresh one? She loved that notion.”
― Ava Miles, The Chocolate Garden

“It would be an adventure, getting to know the new person in the mirror. And it would be another way she could teach her children to never become trapped in an identity that no longer supported them.”
― Ava Miles, The Chocolate Garden

“John Parker had learned sometimes you had to lose something to get something better. Tammy was learning that lesson. He prayed she would recognize he was that something better.”
― Ava Miles, The Chocolate Garden

“We’re all scared, Tammy. But only the ones with courage do what’s needed anyway. Cowards do nothing. You’ve got spine. You might think you’ve lost it, but you’ve got it. You just need to remember that.”
― Ava Miles, The Chocolate Garden

“But everyone had a different path lined with a different set of challenges.”
― Ava Miles, The Chocolate Garden

“chosen to be part”
― Ava Miles, The Chocolate Garden

“could sing like”
― Ava Miles, The Chocolate Garden

“more interesting to look at.”
― Ava Miles, The Chocolate Garden

“obsessed with the phrase. “It’s hard to explain the commercial uses to a five-year-old. We bought some after a rainstorm at the local hardware store one time, and it stunk up the car. She’s never forgotten.” He edged closer and rubbed her cheek with his thumb, igniting forest fires in the dark woods of her”
― Ava Miles, The Chocolate Garden