Elyse Douglas > Quotes

“We know all we need to know, Eve Kennedy.  We will touch, Eve, and I promise you we will certainly kiss… and we will love.  I will never stop loving you, whether you agree to marry me or not.”
― Elyse Douglas, The Christmas Eve Letter

“After all, isn’t this world a truly wonderful and mysterious place? - Maggie Lott Gantly Fitzwilliam”
― Elyse Douglas, The Christmas Eve Daughter

“Internal conflict is caused by psychological wounds and unconscious beliefs that we acquire from birth to five years old, and then project out to everyone around us. Unconscious beliefs, especially those that create a negative self-image, must be made conscious and analyzed in order for us to see them for what they are. The wounds can be healed through counseling or spiritual practice. To minimize the wounds and negative beliefs, children must have care and love in early life.”
― Elyse Douglas, Time and Tide

“don’t like the word ‘should,’ Sally. We are who we are. It’s best to be authentic.”
― Elyse Douglas, Time Lost

“We have so much time and so little time, and yet time surrounds us, always. Isn’t that so?”
― Elyse Douglas, The Christmas Eve Promise

“A woman wants everything a man wants.
- Annabelle Palmer”
― Elyse Douglas, The Christmas Eve Journey

“I stopped judging the world during the Great War.  That’s when I learned that the human race is insane.  I saw good”
― Elyse Douglas, Speakeasy Book 1

“People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

—Albert Einstein”
― Elyse Douglas, Time Stranger

“money can be a curse, and it will poison your soul and destroy your life unless you use it to help others. Money can be corrosive, especially for the generations that didn’t make it.”
― Elyse Douglas, Time and Tide

“New York’s like a wonderland of the crazy, the playful, and the hopeful. Whenever I walk the streets and look around, I believe that absolutely anything is possible—anything can happen...and many times it does.”
― Elyse Douglas, Christmas Ever After