Melissa Tagg > Quotes

“Why was it that a person could forget a thousand moments over a lifetime but never purge the one memory she truly wanted to forget?”
― Melissa Tagg, Made to Last

“Life's greatest adventure is love. Loving each other, loving others. And being loved--first by God, then by each other. There's no better purpose.”
― Melissa Tagg, Here to Stay

“Maybe that was the best part. The beautiful peace that came with
living her own story, knowing every turn of the page and tug of the
heart was a new beginning.”
― Melissa Tagg, From the Start

“You can’t let the thought of what other people expect be your compass, Ava.”
― Melissa Tagg, Three Little Words

“Sometimes believing is a matter of deciding. Deciding who you’re going to trust and what you know about who you trust.”
― Melissa Tagg, Like Never Before

“But, slowly, she was learning how to live in the tension between heartache and hope. How to trust the heart of God who stayed even when her own heart drifted, knowing He’d always find a way to draw her back.”
― Melissa Tagg, A Seaside Wonder

“Man, all those years in college we didn’t get along, I could’ve just given you a pie and, bam, new best friend.”
― Melissa Tagg, Three Little Words

“I’m the cook, Seth. I could take a stove apart and put it back together, but dishwashers aren’t my thing.”
― Melissa Tagg, Three Little Words

“He could lose himself in the copper warmth of her eyes. Except, no, this wasn't losing himself. This was finding something precious.”
― Melissa Tagg, Like Never Before

“Sometimes we have to let history rest to make way for what’s coming next.”
― Melissa Tagg, Three Little Words

“He stood and reached for the package, seeing his name in Ava’s handwriting—and a note underneath the address. Don’t open until the restaurant’s grand opening. He grinned as he pulled off the tape. Raegan tsked. “Didn’t you see the note?” “Rae, I guarantee you when Ava wrote that she knew I’d ignore it.”
― Melissa Tagg, Three Little Words

“I’m just saying, Ave, you might dress in jeans and a T-shirt and never wear your hair down and talk about how you’re a football-loving tomboy, but you’re also very much an attractive woman, and any man would be blind not to see it, and maybe that’s a weird thing for one friend to say to another, and now I think I might be rambling because I’m embarrassed that I said it. But whatever. It’s the truth.”
― Melissa Tagg, Three Little Words

“Maybe the real freedom is in letting go of the what-ifs. Choosing hopeful expectation over worry that life is going to shortchange you.”
― Melissa Tagg, Here to Stay

“But I don’t know if Seth was actually serious.” “Ask him in one of your bazillion emails. Sheesh.”
― Melissa Tagg, Three Little Words

“Well, she'd been in shock. She could've believed just about anything. The Easter Bunny, tooth fairy, Santa... Yes, Virginia, men do let you down.”
― Melissa Tagg, Made to Last

“Sometimes God whispers. Sometimes he shouts. He doesn't always communicate the same way twice, and frankly, sometimes we're going to get it wrong. But part of faith is embracing the mystery--all the while knowing that even when we're confused, God is faithful. He's trustworthy.”
― Melissa Tagg, Keep Holding On

“Ah, arguing with Ava Kingsley. Just like old times.” Only back in college they’d argued in print—weekly.”
― Melissa Tagg, Three Little Words

“But as much as life is sometimes about knowing what you want and going after it and finishing, maybe other times it’s about slowing down and shutting up and waiting. There’s not always a clear beginning and obvious end. Sometimes we’re in the middle . . . and it’s okay to camp out there for a while.”
― Melissa Tagg, Three Little Words

“The truth is, I would've felt empty anywhere. I realize now that through a million moments of adventure and excitement, I was only trying to make up for the one moment I wanted to forget.”
― Melissa Tagg, Here to Stay

“You can’t let the thought of what other people expect be your compass,”
― Melissa Tagg, Three Little Words

“No, she'd simply had no energy to clean the place out after Robbie left. Interesting, though, how seeing the ease of familiarity with which Matthew moved around the cabin blurred the ghost of Robbie.”
― Melissa Tagg, Made to Last

“He doesn't ask for perfect hearing or a life free of missteps, Kit. Just your trust."
"What if I don't have that kind of trust? What if my faith isn't as strong as yours?"....
...Willa tucked Kit's hand through her arm and climbed the porch steps. "That's the beauty of God, my girl. Even when we're tempted to let go, he keeps holding on.”
― Melissa Tagg, Keep Holding On

“But better to be out on the floor doing something—even if it couldn’t exactly be called dancing—than playing wallflower, with only painful memories for company.”
― Melissa Tagg, Three Little Words

“She likes you so much it makes her not like you.”
― Melissa Tagg, Three Little Words

“He’s like a little kid finally getting to play with his pen pal in person.”
― Melissa Tagg, Three Little Words

“When you really let people see you, Amelia–all of you, not just the snow-obsessed reporter–it’s impossible to look away.”
― Melissa Tagg, Like Never Before

“There were no wracking sobs today, not like that day at the depot when he'd finally set free so many years of furrowed hurt. Let his dad encircle him with all the strength and comfort he'd pushed away since the day he'd left town. It has been an unshackling. A letting go.

Today was a holding on. To courage in the midst of fear. To faith in the midst of uncertainty.
To a father's love he knew had never once wavered.”
― Melissa Tagg, Keep Holding On

“For the record, Maren voted hot. Drew voted cold. They both voted a la mode. Because, honestly, what's the point of pie without ice cream?”
― Melissa Tagg, One Enchanted Christmas

“Guess that’s one of the keys in life. Knowing when to hold on, when to let go.”
― Melissa Tagg, Three Little Words

“God rarely asks us to do what is easy. He calls us to hard things. To love when we don’t feel like loving. To serve when we don’t feel like serving. But in the hard things, He never leaves our side. Emmanuel. God with us.”
― Melissa Tagg, Royally Yours