Pepper Basham > Quotes

“It took being forced into unwanted matchmaking for me to discover who I was, what I wanted, and my own perfect match. Isn’t that what we all want down deep? To be seen for who we are, even with all our flaws, and be loved anyway. Completely.”
― Pepper D. Basham, Authentically, Izzy: A fun, low-spice, bookish rom-com told through emails, texts, and letters

“I'm going to be a princess that fights dragons. Ain't no good to sit up in your tower and watch the prince have all the fun.”
― Pepper D. Basham, A Twist of Faith

“Love’s worth being brave, ain’t it? Brave again and again and again.”
― Pepper D. Basham, The Heart of the Mountains

“Why are we always so surprised when God gives us something we’ve been praying for? It’s like we don’t believe He’s actually listening.”
― Pepper Basham, Authentically, Izzy: A fun, low-spice, bookish rom-com told through emails, texts, and letters

“Life is too precious to hesitate when God offers the opportunity for something even better than what we imagine.”
― Pepper D. Basham, Authentically, Izzy: A fun, low-spice, bookish rom-com told through emails, texts, and letters

“Someday a man will see behind your veil of introversion and catch a glimpse. Then he’ll stop at nothing to show you how he sees you—and you won’t be able to go back to anything less.”
― Pepper Basham, Authentically, Izzy: A fun, low-spice, bookish rom-com told through emails, texts, and letters

“When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Pepper Basham, Authentically, Izzy: A fun, low-spice, bookish rom-com told through emails, texts, and letters

“God holds us. We are protected by His grip in such a precious way that the good and the bad must pass through His fingers to us. No harm, fear, or pain can reach us without His allowance, and yet, it is a loving grip. A loving allowance we cannot understand until time has frayed our pride and tempered our heartbreak. And even then, our only answer may be to trust His love more than our understanding.”
― Pepper D. Basham, The Thorn Keeper

“But I reckon God wouldn’t have given tears to us if He didn’t mean for us to use them now and again.”
― Pepper D. Basham, The Heart of the Mountains

“I don’t know if you can genetically acquire a love for books, but if so, I was doubly impacted.”
― Pepper Basham, Authentically, Izzy: A fun, low-spice, bookish rom-com told through emails, texts, and letters

“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

“The soft song from the past threatened to awaken feelings and memories she avoided like black-eyed peas and family reunions.”
― Pepper D. Basham, A Twist of Faith

“You have a choice. Take hold of your future or the past will take it for you.”
― Pepper D. Basham

“Clearly you’ve not been reading your Sherlock. Every mystery starts with a remote theory based on inconclusive findings.”
― Pepper D. Basham, The Mistletoe Countess

“The place where they lived within my heart is still being held for them, like a bookmark of sorts - waiting to see them again.”
― Pepper D. Basham, Authentically, Izzy

“It’s about taking what you have within you, what God-given gifts you already possess, and falling in love with them. Making them work for your future. Uniquely. That’s how you make your life worth living, for yourself and others.”
― Pepper D. Basham, Authentically, Izzy: A fun, low-spice, bookish rom-com told through emails, texts, and letters

“Somehow, you’ve listened to the wrong voices about who you are, but God sees you as someone beautiful and precious. Someone worth dying for.”
― Pepper D. Basham, Just the Way You Are

“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

“However, I want to be clear from the outset that I’m coming with the sole purpose of meeting you.”
― Pepper D. Basham, Authentically, Izzy: A fun, low-spice, bookish rom-com told through emails, texts, and letters

“It may sound weird, but now I know that love looks a whole lot like hours of comfortable silence on the couch together, or snort-laughing over inside jokes, or gentle words and tender compliments that warm the heart more than speed up the pulse (though those are nice too).”
― Pepper Basham, Authentically, Izzy: A fun, low-spice, bookish rom-com told through emails, texts, and letters

“then why are you suddenly surprised when the Almighty gives you what you asked? If I recall from what sermons I've attended to, God is known for lavishing love on His children. Grace, I believe it's called?...Why not shower Him with thanksgiving and take the gift He's placed before you? I would hazard a guess that gratitude is never a bad start for any relationship.”
― Pepper Basham, The Mistletoe Countess

“Pain is a lifelong fixture in a broken world, girl. All of us need strength from God to face hurts from inside.”
― Pepper D. Basham, Charming the Troublemaker

“Patience, Grace. You’re tending a heart.”
― Pepper D. Basham, The Mistletoe Countess

“The Bible proved incredibly poetic and poignant at the most opportune times.”
― Pepper D. Basham, The Mistletoe Countess

“Each time you allow the past to hold your future, [he] steals more and more from you.”
― Pepper D. Basham

“Her thoughts clung to the truth. Hope in God. Perhaps God was using these lonely moments to remind her that He was enough and that He’d made her just as she was, for His glory. Even if she’d never know which shoes to wear with a summer suit!”
― Pepper D. Basham, The Mistletoe Countess

“I love it when you speak in fiction.”
― Pepper Basham, The Mistletoe Countess

“Just something to ponder—You can’t fail him so badly that He won’t love you anyway.”
― Pepper D. Basham, A Twist of Faith

“You hold to the same faith as I, but even more than that, your Creator holds you. No matter where you go or what the expectations are, you are not alone. Remember who you are, and you will not only survive, but you will flourish.”
― Pepper Basham, The Mistletoe Countess

“My dear, if I didn't know you had such a kind heart, I'd be terrified of you.”
― Pepper Basham, The Mistletoe Countess