The Friday Night Date Dress Quotes

“No, she didn’t know what adventures the next chapter of her life would bring—but for the first time in years, she was eager to find out.”
― Talena Winters, The Friday Night Date Dress

“She cried for her father, and for Robert, and for all the scars she thought would never heal. As she cried, the tears washed away all the pain she had held in for so long.”
― Talena Winters, The Friday Night Date Dress

“I know. At least, I do now. But I have blamed myself for years for Robert even being on that flight. If I hadn’t wanted to see him so badly and made such a fuss, he would have come home the next day and we would have been happily married five weeks later.”
― Talena Winters, The Friday Night Date Dress

“Because she now knew two things for certain—Peter had loved her. And although she now knew it was safe to love him back, it might be too late.”
― Talena Winters, The Friday Night Date Dress

“Maybe God took them simply because it was time for them to come home.”
― Talena Winters, The Friday Night Date Dress

“Melinda did. Like someone had turned on the sun, she finally saw the gaping cavern of loneliness in her spirit for what it was—not an ache to be in Robert’s arms, or even to see her father or mother. From beyond the bottomless black cavern she’d been living in, she could hear the Spirit’s call—Come back to the Father, it said. Come back to Me.”
― Talena Winters, The Friday Night Date Dress

“I may not be quite ready to move on. But I know that I have to let you go. It’s time for me to start living again.”
― Talena Winters, The Friday Night Date Dress

“I’m sorry I’m going to miss your wedding, honey. I really wanted to give you away.” Tears slid down Melinda’s face, but she ignored them. “It’s okay, Dad. At least you’ll get to sit with Mom for the ceremony.”
― Talena Winters, The Friday Night Date Dress

“And if she had, maybe she was simply trying not to be hurt again.”
― Talena Winters, The Friday Night Date Dress

“People didn’t always know how to say what they meant. Especially people who were hurting.”
― Talena Winters, The Friday Night Date Dress

“The dam she’d built around her emotions burst wide open with a violence that shook the mattress on its frame.”
― Talena Winters, The Friday Night Date Dress

“Why did these have to be so perfect? Why did he?”
― Talena Winters, The Friday Night Date Dress

“But whether you are a designer or not, you are someone with a story to tell—and someone out there needs to hear your words. And that means none of us, not a single person in this room, is no one. You have only to accept that the world needs to hear what you have to say.”
― Talena Winters, The Friday Night Date Dress

“It is the story we tell the world about ourselves. Our clothes reveal who we are and how we relate to the world—and how we want the world to relate to us.”
― Talena Winters, The Friday Night Date Dress

“Why had she told Peter that? Idiot!”
― Talena Winters, The Friday Night Date Dress

“Not all women are like Anise. There are plenty of decent and loving girls out there looking for a wonderful guy like you. You’re fun, you’re caring, you’re handsome . . . you have so much going for you. You just haven’t found that special girl who will be The One for you yet. That’s all.”
― Talena Winters, The Friday Night Date Dress

“And even if you made a mistake, it was very seldom unfixable with a little extra time and effort. Not like life. Not like life at all.”
― Talena Winters, The Friday Night Date Dress