Positively, Penelope Quotes

“But don’t let all those big dreams in your head stop you from seeing that sometimes the best adventures can still be in the simplest things. Like home and family.”
― Pepper D. Basham, Positively, Penelope

“I can't say a man has ever made me swoon, but if I were ever tempted, I think Gene Kelly would do the trick.”
― Pepper Basham, Positively, Penelope

“And she'd prayed, too, since if past experience proved true, God didn't mind snotty faces and partial-syllable blubbering. He was supposed to understand things like that.”
― Pepper Basham, Positively, Penelope

“The urge to kiss her nearly bowled him over. What would she do if he lost all restraint and snogged her quite thoroughly right here on the pavement?”
― Pepper Basham, Positively, Penelope

“He’d never met anyone who wore sunshine quite like Penelope Edgewood. At first, it had been too much. Too overpowering and seemingly inauthentic, but then, over the weeks, her vibrancy melded into the spaces of this theater, shining in shadowy places no one had noticed for much too long.”
― Pepper D. Basham, Positively, Penelope

“It's not a sin or anything to sort of hold hands in church, is it?”
― Pepper Basham, Positively, Penelope

“His chuckle broke free, and he made the decision right then that he'd do whatever he could to pursue a relationship with Penelope Edgewood, because he was certain neither he nor Iris could find anyone more positively perfect for them than her.”
― Pepper Basham, Positively, Penelope

“We can play scenarios of the what-ifs all we like, but there's no way of knowing for sure without putting on our brave pants and just going for it.”
― Pepper D. Basham, Positively, Penelope

“I’m sure you’ve figured out by now that I’m all about fairy tales and sweep-you-off-your-feet kinds of things, but deep down I’ve been realizing what is even better than having a man walk into a forest and finish your dream song. It’s having a man who listens to me. Who wants to KNOW me and cares about what I have to say. Who sees beyond my age or my clothes or my random silliness and knows that deeper than all those things is a heart that cares and a mind that thinks. I mean, I wouldn’t mind him counting down the minutes to see me each day or running through rain to rescue me either. But at the end of the performance, there’s the ever after. And I want someone for the ever-after part, when the audience is gone and the stage is empty, and the only crowd we’re in front of is each other.”
― Pepper Basham, Positively, Penelope

“Winnie-the-Pooh: “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
― Pepper Basham, Positively, Penelope