The Writing Desk Quotes

“Do not withhold good . . . when it is in your power to do it.”
― Rachel Hauck, The Writing Desk

“Doubt is just another color of fear.”
― Rachel Hauck, The Writing Desk

“We live in a world of fortune and luxury, yet how poor and sad we are at times.”
― Rachel Hauck, The Writing Desk

“She wasn't sure she could breathe without him.”
― Rachel Hauck, The Writing Desk

“Youth isn't all it's cracked up to be either."
"Then you're doing it wrong.”
― Rachel Hauck, The Writing Desk

“Spend sunny afternoons writing. Take weekends in the country. Dream. Drink good wine, eat fabulous cheese and great bread. Make the kind of love that destroys the bed.”
― Rachel Hauck, The Writing Desk

“Look, this isn't about the ring or when I ever made a hamburger, which, for your information, was my senior year of college."
"Right, when you almost caught our kitchen on fire."
"And you dated one of the firefighters for six months. You're welcome. Back to my problem.”
― Rachel Hauck, The Writing Desk

“Rubbing salt in my wound won't change what I did.”
― Rachel Hauck, The Writing Desk

“Death required me to pay attention to my life, to what I believe. A woman never knows when her life will be required of her.”
― Rachel Hauck, The Writing Desk

“Standing there in her robe, that ridiculous robe, with the socks and slippers bulging from the pockets, Jonas saw a glint, the sparkle of a buried gem, in Tenley. He saw a woman worthy of love. Deserving of a man who would give her himself.”
― Rachel Hauck, The Writing Desk

“This was Miss Blanche’s daughter? She was a mess. A beautiful mess.”
― Rachel Hauck, The Writing Desk

“Going with it was Tenley’s superpower. Only child of a single dad, she’d learned to roll with almost any situation. The upside was very little ruffled her. The downside was very little ruffled her.”
― Rachel Hauck, The Writing Desk

“Alone was the loneliest place on earth”
― Rachel Hauck, The Writing Desk

“She ate--so, so good--cocooned in the harmonic dissonance of a large family, where every sound was distinct yet blended.”
― Rachel Hauck, The Writing Desk

“You make every case for marriage but love.”
― Rachel Hauck, The Writing Desk

“Do not open that door until I'm in my room. I may be old and losing my hair, but I still want to look nice for a handsome man.”
― Rachel Hauck, The Writing Desk

“Why must duty require me to break my own heart?”
― Rachel Hauck, The Writing Desk

“Percival pinched his lips, sending his laugh to his eyes.”
― Rachel Hauck, The Writing Desk

“In the darkest of nights, there is only one thing on your mind--should I be required to stand before the Almighty, will I find myself in His favor?”
― Rachel Hauck, The Writing Desk

“The grandfather clock struck the half hour. She must be away. Glancing from Mama to Mrs. Smith to Mrs. Astor, she did the only polite thing she could do.

She rolled her eyes back in her head, exhaled a loud gasp and swooned out of her chair.”
― Rachel Hauck, The Writing Desk