Hope Between the Pages Quotes

“Any story that begins with a library is bound to be an excellent tale.”
― Pepper D. Basham, Hope Between the Pages

“Courage wasn't courage without fear ...”
― Pepper D. Basham, Hope Between the Pages

“To live will be an awfully big adventure.’ What better way to become armed than with thousands of stories?”
― Pepper D. Basham, Hope Between the Pages

“I’d never considered how some of our greatest losses lead us to choices that God uses for bigger things than we could have ever imagined. Sometimes brokenness and heartache force us into self-seclusion and fear, and sometimes they can propel us into something amazing, if we let them (pp. 251-252).”
― Pepper Basham, Hope Between the Pages

“My father always told me to never outgrow my belief in faith and fairy tales, but fear has a way of darkening one’s vision, and so I’d lost of the beauty God displayed through magical stories. Not so much the glass slippers or the poisoned apples, but the deeper truths. The light overcoming darkness. The rewards of perseverance. The beauty that can come through trials of thorns or battles or even sleeping death. I’d forgotten that imagination gives me so much more than the ability to fall into the world of a book. It motivates my dreams, inspires remarkable love, and helps me see beyond this world to a greater one (pp. 249-250).”
― Pepper Basham, Hope Between the Pages

“Keep to your Bible and to your fairy tales, sweet girl. One is for your soul and the other is for your daydreams. Both will help you through this, and in both you’ll find your story (pp. 245-246).”
― Pepper Basham, Hope Between the Pages

“I’d lived a quiet life as long as I could remember, so solitude didn’t frighten me. In fact, I slipped it on like a pair of well-loved shoes (p. 164).”
― Pepper Basham, Hope Between the Pages

“God was there. And here. And all the places in between. Couldn’t I trust Him with the horizon as I trusted this ship to carry me . . ? (p. 147).”
― Pepper Basham, Hope Between the Pages

“Love makes us brave. And hope inspires our imaginations.”
― Pepper D. Basham, Hope Between the Pages