Sarah Monzon > Quotes

“Memories are precious things. Not to be taken for granted. They have the power to bring comfort, to make us smile and feel warm inside. Everyone should take the time to cherish the memories they have and be more intentional about making new, good, and lasting ones with those they love.”
― Sarah Monzon, All's Fair in Love and Christmas

“Every great romance should start from an even greater friendship. It’s what gives the relationship strength to withstand any obstacle.”
― Sarah Monzon, Bookishly Ever After

“God is the lover of your soul, Evangeline. He woos you every single day of your life, wanting you to fall in love with Him over and over again the way He loves you. He calls you beautiful, beloved, and lavishes you with more tenderness and affection than a groom does a bride on their wedding day. And nothing can change that. Not an autoimmune disorder or physical changes in appearance. Certainly not hair loss. He loved you from the beginning, and He’ll love you for all time.”
― Sarah Monzon, An Overdue Match

“I concede it’s safe to say most people have a base desire to be liked and accepted, but it’s dangerous if we start living and making decisions that will only please the people around us and not make us happy.”
― Sarah Monzon, An Overdue Match

“Reading wasn’t a hiding place, it was an escape. A place to decompress, to wrestle with issues in real life, a means to cope. But”
― Sarah Monzon, Bookishly Ever After

“She's heard it said that Southerners have a soothing drawl like warm honey on toast. Those people had never had a British man speak over them.”
― Sarah Monzon, With You Here

“. . . for to mistreat a book is most certainly a punishable crime.”
― Sarah Monzon, An Overdue Match

“Because books are more than just paper and ink. They’re a portal leading to anywhere you ever wanted to go—heart, mind, or soul.”
― Sarah Monzon, An Overdue Match

“I’d have to be more careful to put oven mitts around my heart where he was concerned.”
― Sarah Monzon, Molly

“You take the opportunities given to you. If we always waited for perfection, we'd miss out on so much. Don't you think?”
― Sarah Monzon, All of You

“Don't be afraid to live the life you've been given. Some of us don't t have the chance . . . . don't waste yours.”
― Sarah Monzon, All of You

“Every day not knowing what his future looked like induced a frantic need. He’d never been patient. Wasn’t good at sitting on the sidelines. Give him a battle plan, and he’d execute it. Any day now, God.”
― Sarah Monzon, All of You

“God is big enough to handle anything you throw at him . . . the one thing you have to remember though, son. When you throw something, it's no longer in your hands.”
― Sarah Monzon, All of You

“And that leaves romance. This genre took me a little longer than the others to realize I also didn’t qualify for a leading role. My ex-fiancé, Brett, was the first to let me in on the secret, although I missed the clues to begin with because, as I’ve established, I’d never make it as a mystery-solving sleuth. But looking back, I can see the hints along the way even before he sat me down for the big reveal. The ebbing interest in his eyes when he looked at me. The loss of touch that coincided with the loss of my hair. The tie of attraction that had at one time bound him to me unraveling, until one day it just wasn’t there anymore. At least for him. At first, I convinced myself Brett’s actions and words had nothing to do with my heroine status and everything to do with demoting him from leading man to villain. I mean, it was classic villainous behavior for him to have such a shallow depth of feeling that he was no longer attracted to me and stopped loving me when I developed alopecia, an autoimmune disease in which my T cells sound the bugle cry to attack my hair follicles like the swarm of bees that kept Winnie the Pooh from the honey in the tree (that’s probably a strange analogy, but I subbed for Martha at story time yesterday and the toddlers and preschoolers made buzzing sounds when we came to that page, so it’s still fresh in my mind).”
― Sarah Monzon, An Overdue Match

“Libraries aren’t famous for their penal codes, but some literary offenses deserve due punishments.”
― Sarah Monzon, An Overdue Match

“It wasn't falling. There hadn't been a great hole that I'd stumbled into unaware, the jarring from the landing enough to take my breath away, Instead, it was as if Malachi had offered me his hand - as he was doing now - to help me down each step, leading me into something heart-deep and meaningful.”
― Sarah Monzon, Jocelyn

“Alopecia, he read. An autoimmune disorder in which the immune system attacked hair follicles. Some people experienced balding in spots. Others, a total loss of hair on their scalp. And for some, he read on, a complete loss of hair across the entirety of their bodies. Alopecia universalis was a rare condition, and less than ten percent of people who experienced the disorder ever had their hair grow back.”
― Sarah Monzon, An Overdue Match

“I think your grandmother means,” Grampie says, “that we prayed you’d let that brilliant light within you shine again and not let anyone dull it. That you’d stop running away from love long enough to see that love will never stop pursuing you.”
― Sarah Monzon, An Overdue Match

“She said the best type of man is the one that can support a girl and let her shine.”
― Sarah Monzon, Nicole

“A book doesn’t have feelings, but it does have a soul. Life exhaled into every word by the author and then breathed into each person who reads those same words.”
― Sarah Monzon, An Overdue Match

“The conversation from last night replays through my mind like a piece of dialogue highlighted on my Kindle and posted to Goodreads.”
― Sarah Monzon, An Overdue Match

“I’ve learned a few rules about caring for younger children. The first rule of childcare is: you do not talk about childcare. Oh wait, that’s fight club, and I’m not Brad Pitt. Honestly, sometimes being a caretaker feels like going three rounds, wanting to tap out, but knowing you’ve got to stay in the ring.”
― Sarah Monzon, Molly

“A book doesn’t have feelings, but it does have a soul. Life exhaled into every word by the author and then breathed into each person who reads those same words. So, in a sense, books are both alive themselves and give life to others simultaneously.”
― Sarah Monzon, An Overdue Match

“A smile must first originate in the heart and take root before the harvest of joy in the windows to the soul.”
― Sarah Monzon, The Esther Paradigm

“There was an energy about him. Maybe how his voice seemed to move the air particles in the room.”
― Sarah Monzon, Betsy

“Bravery isn’t the absence of fear.” “No?” Her eyes watered. “What is it then?” He squeezed her fingers. “Bravery is just the voice telling fear he can’t win today.”
― Sarah Monzon, An Overdue Match

“You are loved. You are loved. Tai said the same thing, but this is different. Deeper. Ancient. Not a romantic love, but a never-ending, never fading, eternal, supernatural type of love. “God has never stopped wooing you, Evangeline. He is the lover and romancer of your soul.”
― Sarah Monzon, An Overdue Match

“Any ideals I had about what kind of mother I would be—limited-to-no screen time, enforce a balanced diet with no fast food whatsoever, never give in to a tantrum, etc.—have been shattered in a matter of days…and I’m not even a mother! But maybe balance is better anyway. That’s what I’m telling myself, otherwise I think my sanity might start to be an issue.”
― Sarah Monzon, Molly