The Scent of Lilacs Quotes

“A sensitive nose isn’t always that great a gift. Plenty of smells are better unsmelt.”
― Ann H. Gabhart, The Scent of Lilacs

“Aunt Love said no housework was ever wasted, that it had to be done sooner or later anyway, but Jocie noticed the sooner you did it the sooner you had to do it again.”
― Ann H. Gabhart, The Scent of Lilacs

“Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good.”
― Ann H. Gabhart, The Scent of Lilacs

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― Ann H. Gabhart, The Scent of Lilacs

“Even when the divorce papers had come in the mail, even when he’d finally signed them, he’d still felt married, still felt as if he had to be faithful to those vows even though they were empty and meaningless now. Perhaps that was just because he was afraid of moving past those vows, afraid of starting over. So now he looked straight into the eyes of that fear. The fear of being hurt again. The fear of not being worthy of a woman’s love. The fear of failure.”
― Ann H. Gabhart, The Scent of Lilacs