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

“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

“Life is too precious to hesitate when God offers the opportunity for something even better than what we imagine.”
― Pepper D. Basham, Authentically, Izzy

“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

“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

“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

“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 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

“I don’t know if you can genetically acquire a love for books, but if so, I was doubly impacted.”
― Pepper Basham, Authentically, Izzy

“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

“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

“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

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

“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've always found a lot of truth in romantic fiction. What's wrong with expecting a man to treat a woman well? To share excellent conversations? To have similar like - even unusual ones? To experience mutual respect and humor? What do these kinds of things seem more frequent in popular novels and Hallmark movies than in real life? Is it wrong to wait for a relationship like that?"

Authentically, Izzy”
― Pepper Basham, Authentically, Izzy

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

“God restores lost things, you know.”
― Pepper D. Basham, Just the Way You Are

“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

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

“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

“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

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