Kellyn Roth > Quotes

“You don’t have to change. You have to be changed.”
― Kellyn Roth, Flowers

“Low and behold what comes of reading too many romance novels.”
― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret

“Ghosts!” gasped Alice. “Real, live ghosts?”

“No! Not ‘real, live ghosts!’ Spooky, dead ghosts!”
― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret

“Marriage will demand you deliberately choose the action of love, but the feelings of being in love can make us willing, eager, to commit to that sacrifice, even if one should be able to, with God’s help, make it without involving the original emotion. If you look at a man and you know that you would lay your life down for him, in whatever way it was required of you, that—that is the type of spark you need. It’s only a spark. That’s all being in love is—the beginning, the moment that ignites, the feeling. Everything else is hard work.”
― Kellyn Roth, At Her Fingertips

“He could make me happy, and more than that, he could chase joy with me when happiness flees.”
― Kellyn Roth, Beyond Her Calling

“Every day is another opportunity to use your specific situation in life to glorify God.”
― Kellyn Roth, After Our Castle

“It’s like being offered lemonade after having something really sweet. The lemonade was wonderful before, but it just tastes sour after.”
― Kellyn Roth, The Lady of the Vineyard

“Heaven help his bank account if he stumbled into a bookstore.”
― Kellyn Roth, At Her Fingertips

“She didn't think she could be a Christian if perfection was required.”
― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret

“I’m an idiot for trying to avoid these feelings because they have caused me pain in the past.”
― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret

“For the thousandth time, Adele Collier, don’t open the closet door or you’ll get crushed!”
― Kellyn Roth, The Lady of the Vineyard

“You’re not humble at this point. You are a coward. So is any man who doesn’t come out and tell his intentions to a woman he’s interested in—and hang all this ‘I’m not ready.’ God doesn’t work with ready people, people who refuse to take a risk, people who wait for the perfect circumstances to align before every forward step—you’re the one who taught me that.”
― Kellyn Roth, At Her Fingertips

“She was doing it again—letting pride and stubbornness pull her away from those she loved. She’d rather appear strong and reject vulnerability than have a close relationship with her family. But she wasn’t strong; she was weak, and every time she failed to show her weakness, she became weaker.”
― Kellyn Roth, At Her Fingertips

“There was a music in the clack of the train tracks, a music to the way the people seemed lulled by it.”
― Kellyn Roth, Beyond Her Calling

“You see, Miss Chattoway, Miss Elton is very nice, and Phil and Steven are lovely to me, but I really can’t have a conversation with them as I could with another woman.” She paused for a moment then hastily added, “Not that Miss Elton isn’t a woman, but that you can’t really talk with her … if you know what I mean.”         Miss”
― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret

“He’d figured out early on in his relationship with his sisters that pushing never did anything in any area—leading did. Leading meant one walked the path ahead of a woman, guarding her and making sure it was safe before asking her to walk in his footsteps. He applied that idea to every aspect of his relationship with most women.”
― Kellyn Roth, A Prayer Unanswered

“If Miss Elton spoke water instead of words, then there would have been a repetition of Noah’s flood.”
― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret

“[A]ll these years, I had been telling myself that my feelings for you were a juvenile infatuation; a dream inspired by my secret hope that somewhere there could be a creature who could love me.”
― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret

“God decides when our lives end, of course, but before then, we must cling to life, for while we breathe, we can be assured that we have a purpose in life greater than simply living.”
― Kellyn Roth, A Prayer Unanswered

“It’s all right to take time and talk to God. Just remember to keep your heart open. Trust that, even if your heart is not in the right place, He will still be able to work with your prayers.”
― Kellyn Roth, A Prayer Unanswered

“There’s legitimacy to your dreams, same as there was to mine.”
― Kellyn Roth, After Our Castle

“In our stumbling, we fail, again and again. But we are so grateful for a God who is greater than all our sins, our harshly spoken words, our lies, and our overly outspoken truths.”
― Kellyn Roth, A Prayer Unanswered

“She must ask; she must heal, and if she couldn’t heal, she must suffer, but if there was a chance, she must take it.”
― Kellyn Roth, The Lady of the Vineyard

“What a mess you’ve made of the simplest of subjects, Della.”
― Kellyn Roth, Flowers

“You made a lifetime commitment before God and the world. A silly thing like a divorce doesn’t reverse it.”
― Kellyn Roth, The Lady of the Vineyard

“This was supposed to be her ‘happily ever after.’ How dare she be discontent? There was no point in it.”
― Kellyn Roth, After Our Castle

“I know you can do it, but I know it won’t be easy. All I’m asking is for you to come back to the land of the living. Not all the way, perhaps, but look out of your grave enough to see what’s going on about you.”
― Kellyn Roth, A Prayer Unanswered

“the latest antics of Kitty, who had chased a fly over a washtub with hilarious but soaking results.”
― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret

“I’m not God, and I can’t always offer chances. I’m not sure if this won’t be your last.”
― Kellyn Roth, The Lady of the Vineyard

“I love Alice more than life itself, but I can't keep her hidden forever.”
― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret