Amber Kelly > Quotes

“Real love survives time and distance. It doesn’t need to be constantly reassured. It just is.”
― Amber Kelly, Rustic Hearts

“Grace is forgiving someone even when they don’t ask for it or deserve it. It releases you from the burden of carrying a chain of anger around your neck because carrying that heavy load does more damage to you than it does the person your angry with. It affects you physically and emotionally.”
― Amber Kelly, Rustic Hearts

“Falling in love is the easy part, the fun part. It’s staying in love that’s hard.”
― Amber Kelly, Rustic Hearts

“Because you had to find your own way out of that darkness. I’ve always been the candle at the end, lighting your way.”
― Amber Kelly, Stone Hearts

“Time is the most valuable thing any of us owns. We can't hoard it or save it, can't borrow it from another person, can't buy it or even pray for more of it. Yet time is the one thing we waste more of than anything else, and we never even notice. We always think we have more until we don't. We are even so careless as to wish it away. Wishing for the weekend to hurry up and come or the workday to be over with or the winter months to pass. Never appreciating the moment we have right now and never stopping to truly live it.”
― Amber Kelly, Rustic Hearts

“The thing about hope is that it doesn’t have to start as a raging inferno. All you need is a flicker. A tiny ember of hope can move you forward into something beautiful.”
― Amber Kelly, Hope After Loss

“I envy trees,” I say. His brow creases. “Why?” “Because when it’s time to change, they do. They let their leaves glow bright with color in autumn, and then, come winter, they let them go so easily to make room for new growth in the spring. New adventure. New purpose.” I muse.”
― Amber Kelly, Life After Wife

“I’m scared,” she admits.
“I am too. Scared I’ll say or do the wrong thing and lose you. Scared I’ll misread the situation at any given time and overstep. I’m not the man who ever has something to lose, and now that I do, it scares the shit out of me.”
― Amber Kelly, Hope After Loss

“I don’t want to put her fire out. I want to sit back and enjoy the burn. She doesn’t need to change a thing. She just needs someone to love her and love Beau with all he has, just the way they are.”
“You that man?” Payne asks, all the amusement gone from his voice.
“If she lets me be, I’ll be that man every single day for the rest of both their lives – or the rest of mine at the very least.”
― Amber Kelly, Stone Hearts

“If we go inside, it’s gonna change everything,” she whispers.
What she doesn’t realize is, everything already has changed.
“Yeah,” I agree. “You ready for that?”
“I don’t know,” she answers honestly.
I sit up and take her mouth again. She opens and melts into the kiss.
When I pull back, I look her in the eye and whisper across her lips, “Yes, you do.”
― Amber Kelly, Stone Hearts

“Can’t we just spend the night together even if I’m unsure? Because I don’t know if I’ll ever be a hundred percent sure. I just want to jump into the deep end with you.”
― Amber Kelly, Hope After Loss