The Christmas Blanket Quotes

“Sometimes you gotta look past all the hard things you go through and look at all the little things you have to be thankful for.”
― Kandi Steiner, The Christmas Blanket

“I shook my head, looking at Beth. “I left him. Again.” A sniff. “I am so, so stupid.” “You’re not,” she insisted, squeezing my leg. “You were just lost, Eliza. And sometimes that can be easier than being found.”
― Kandi Steiner, The Christmas Blanket

“And I regret that mistake,” he said firmly, his feet carrying him toward me. I wanted to move. God, how I wanted to back away, but I was rooted in place. “I have every minute since the one where I lost you. But I loved you, Eliza,” River croaked when he was just inches from me. “I loved you. So I let you go.” His hands reached out, framing my face, his eyes searching mine as he shook his head like every word was the most horrible truth. “And damn it if I don’t love you still.”
― Kandi Steiner, The Christmas Blanket

“Truth or dare?” I asked, voice cracking with the question. “Truth.” “Did you ever miss me, after I left?” He shook his head, the muscles of his jaw ticking, nose flaring, hands still pulling me in, closer, closer. “Only every day, Eliza,” he whispered, his brows bending together. “Every hour. Every minute. Every second you’ve been gone.”
― Kandi Steiner, The Christmas Blanket

“I don’t care if it’s in a big city or in another country or right here in this town we grew up in,” I said through my tears. “I want this. I want you. I’ll go wherever you want or stay right here in this tiny little cabin, as long as I can have you.”
― Kandi Steiner, The Christmas Blanket

“I think I went looking for adventure, but what I didn’t realize was that I left the best one behind.”
― Kandi Steiner, The Christmas Blanket

“Sometimes you gotta look past all the hard things you go through and look at all the little things you have to be thankful”
― Kandi Steiner, The Christmas Blanket

“What I needed was River. I just hoped he needed me, too.”
― Kandi Steiner, The Christmas Blanket

“I loved you. So I let you go.” His hands reached out, framing my face, his eyes searching mine as he shook his head like every word was the most horrible truth. “And damn it if I don’t love you still.”
― Kandi Steiner, The Christmas Blanket

“It was years of love and passion. It was years of heartache and pain. It was everything I hated, everything I desired, everything I’d forgotten and everything I would always remember, too. This is my husband, my heart screamed. This is the love of my life. This is a stranger, my brain combatted. This is the man who let you go.”
― Kandi Steiner, The Christmas Blanket

“You are my adventure, River... just as much as you are my home.”
― kandi steiner, The Christmas Blanket

“My mom used to always quote Woody Allen. If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans. I thought I understood that when I was a little girl. I thought even more so when I was a young woman, a young wife. But now, thinking about the plans I’d made, the way those plans had fallen apart, the path life had led me on that I never would have imagined… I think I finally truly understood it. I must have been God’s favorite joke.”
― Kandi Steiner, The Christmas Blanket

“You are the only gift I have ever wanted or needed. You are the best gift I have ever been given.”
― Kandi Steiner, The Christmas Blanket

“I am lost without you. What a hauntingly beautiful thing to say to a person — that whether you are off on another wild adventure or in the familiar quiet comfort of your very own home, you are all the same, enormously lost, whenever you are without them.” — Beau Taplin”
― Kandi Steiner, The Christmas Blanket

“I wanted to feel warm and cozy and hopeful, to wrap myself up in everything powerful and all-consuming about love. I”
― Kandi Steiner, The Christmas Blanket

“You are my adventure, River,” I whispered helplessly, two tears streaming simultaneously down each of my cheeks at the admission. “Just as much as you are my home.”
― Kandi Steiner, The Christmas Blanket