Courtney Walsh > Quotes

“You don't forgive people for their benefit. You do it for yours. Because if you don't, it'll eat you alive. Jealousy, envy, holding a grudge- they rot you from the inside out.”
― Courtney Walsh, The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley

“If I'm not willing to feel the pain of life, how can I ever expect to feel the joy”
― Courtney Walsh, The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley

“Maybe these simple, little, ordinary things are the big things I’m meant to accomplish with my life.”
― Courtney Walsh, The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley

“We all have our stuff. We all have holes, and we all have scars. And we all have things we’d rather keep hidden, because we think it’s easier not to burden someone else with our baggage.”
― Courtney Walsh, The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley

“Do you know how much you’re missing in the moment by always wishing you were somewhere else?”
― Courtney Walsh, A Cross-Country Christmas

“Some things are true, regardless of who you are. Saying something kind and from the heart is never a bad idea, and it’s never the wrong thing to do.”
― Courtney Walsh, My Phony Valentine

“Happiness isn't that hard to find, you know. It's everywhere. It's all around us. But it's not something that happens to us. It's something we seek. It's something we pursue.”
― Courtney Walsh, The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley

“Life is beautiful and horrible and wonderful and awful all at the same time”
― Courtney Walsh, The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley

“People don’t always let us become who we are. They try to keep us in the box of who we were.”
― Courtney Walsh, My Phony Valentine

“Please, Lauren,” Will said. “You know you’re not the kind of girl you date.” “Ouch.” He leveled her gaze. “You’re the kind of girl you marry.”
― Courtney Walsh, A Cross-Country Christmas

“Is it possible that the happy days and the sad days, I don’t know, need each other somehow? As if the two things have to coexist for either to matter at all?”
― Courtney Walsh, The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley

“Fictional men are always better than the real ones. Always. Probably because they’re written by women.”
― Courtney Walsh, Can't Help Falling

“Maybe happiness isn’t about what you do, Isadora. Maybe it’s about who you do it with. Or simply about accepting who you are.”
― Courtney Walsh, The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley

“Happiness isn’t that hard to find, you know. It’s everywhere. It’s all around us. But it’s not something that happens to us. It’s something we seek. It’s something we pursue. And you’ll never find it if you never let anyone in.”
― Courtney Walsh, The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley

“You have to feel the pain in order to heal.”
― Courtney Walsh, My Lucky Charm

“Because times change. People change. ‘Life moves pretty fast. And if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
― Courtney Walsh, The Summer of Yes

“Replacing the girl reading the book on the porch was this beautiful, closed-off, honest, waiting-to-be-cracked open woman who challenged his contentment simply by living her life. He didn’t want to be challenged. He was just fine with the status quo. Why did she have to go around inspiring him? It was not what he’d signed up for.”
― Courtney Walsh, A Cross-Country Christmas

“Mom always says when you think something good about someone, you should say it out loud,”
― Courtney Walsh, My Lucky Charm

“One thing was for sure: time didn’t heal all wounds. Some were still every bit as fresh as the day they were inflicted.”
― Courtney Walsh, Things Left Unsaid

“I mean, what man wants to “sit in a bookstore and read while holding hands and drinking coffee for at least an hour”? Because that’s number ten on this list. Now that I think about it, I wish I did know a man who wanted to do that with me. I’d marry him on the spot.”
― Courtney Walsh, My Phony Valentine

“Lane closed her eyes and pressed her lips together at the sound of the nickname, a thousand memories whirling through her mind. He hadn’t meant it to hurt her, but even the smallest nick could reopen old wounds.”
― Courtney Walsh, Just Look Up

“He stilled. He knew she was leaving—this wasn’t a surprise—but how did he tell her he didn’t want her to go? That he wanted to know all the things that made her sad, all the things that made her laugh? That he wanted to reach over and wipe those tears away?”
― Courtney Walsh, Just Look Up

“Life is beautiful and horrible and wonderful and awful all at the same time’?” He looks at me then. “And that is the adventure.”
― Courtney Walsh, The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley

“People could not be trusted. They always let you down, and Will Sinclair had already proven that to her, hadn’t he?”
― Courtney Walsh, A Cross-Country Christmas

“We’re strong, capable women, but we still like to be told we’re pretty.”
― Courtney Walsh, My Lucky Charm

“I’ve believed in the potential for something serious. Something that might last forever. I’m not a person who guards my heart, I’m a person who offers it freely, willingly, pathetically.”
― Courtney Walsh, My Lucky Charm

“While it would be easier to criticize the person I was, the truth is, I simply want to give her a hug. She was doing her best.”
― Courtney Walsh, The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley

“It’s not the kind of smile that would alert the paparazzi, but it’s the kind of smile that a person could hold onto. The kind that could make, say, a man in a tough spot hope that things could turn around again. Like an anchor.
A safe space to land.”
― Courtney Walsh, My Phony Valentine

“Small towns have long memories, don’t they?” He says this with a kind of authority I’m not sure he has.
Instinctively, though, I know what he means. People don’t always let us become who we are. They try to keep us in the box of who we were.
We’re all on our way to becoming someone new, aren’t we? I wonder who Dallas Burke is becoming.
I wonder who I am becoming.”
― Courtney Walsh, My Phony Valentine

“Yeah, I feel super sorry for you that you have to be locked in a car with a guy that looks like Chris Evans after the super soldier serum.”
― Courtney Walsh, A Cross-Country Christmas