Ava Miles > Quotes

“life is a long series of sucking it up when things don’t go your way.”
― Ava Miles, Country Heaven

“Dreams are just visions we haven’t experienced yet.”
― Ava Miles, The Chocolate Garden

“And I think you’re …about as lovely as sunlight kissing the leaves of a birch tree in autumn.”
― Ava Miles, Country Heaven

“In the grand scheme of things, the world doesn’t end when our faults clash because it’s cushioned by love and commitment. Oh”
― Ava Miles, Nora Roberts Land

“My husband never transformed into a handsome prince. He stayed quite firmly in the reptile family, a chameleon, perhaps? And I’m pretty sure that if I had ever lost a shoe—even if it were priceless, like a limited edition Manolo Blahnik—he wouldn’t have lifted a finger to find it. Why didn’t I see that he was never going to be my prince?”
― Ava Miles, Nora Roberts Land

“sometimes you had to lose something to get something better. Tammy”
― Ava Miles, The Chocolate Garden

“The hardest part of growing up was realizing life was nothing like the way she’d imagined it.”
― Ava Miles, Nora Roberts Land

“I hope he keeps buying you flowers,” Shelby said. “If you ask me, when a man stops doing the little things, the magic is lost.” Susannah”
― Ava Miles, The Promise of Rainbows

“Fairy tales, like shoes, come in all shapes and sizes. Frogs turn into princes. Princes assist ladies into glass slippers. And now I’m back to shoes again. Shoes are comforting, right? They haven’t let me down, run around on me, or destroyed”
― Ava Miles, Nora Roberts Land

“Rye knew Kansas had a reputation for being rural, but seriously. His stomach growled. God, he was rank, but he was star-ving! Grateful the wind wasn’t behind him, he prayed the waitress would have seasonal allergies and a plugged nose.”
― Ava Miles, Country Heaven

“The snow-covered cemetery looked like a sheet of paper from death’s typewriter, gravestone markers pounded into the ground by its destructive keys, dotting the land with painful stories of lives ended short, long, and somewhere in between.”
― Ava Miles, French Roast

“For so many people marriage has come to mean a power struggle, and that causes a heap of problems, like one person getting their way and trampling all over the other person’s thoughts or wishes. But partnership is different.”
― Ava Miles, The Chocolate Garden

“I told him that so long as there’s one person who loves you, it doesn’t matter how bad things get. You always have to go back.”
― Ava Miles, Country Heaven

“Dreams are just visions we haven’t experienced yet. Doesn’t make them any less real.” As”
― Ava Miles, The Chocolate Garden

“Did you know the number of women killed by a male partner in a ten-year span is greater than all of our brave troops’ casualties from Iraq and Afghanistan”
― Ava Miles, Fireflies and Magnolias

“What kind of stupid idea is not talking about the tough stuff? That’s what relationships are all about.”
― Ava Miles, French Roast

“and she wasn’t going to let a bunch of bullies with more money than sense stand in her way.”
― Ava Miles, Wild Irish Rose

“Life really was precious. They would soak up every minute.”
― Ava Miles, French Roast

“know I’m a pushover.” But he wasn’t usually. He just couldn’t be stern with Henry. Not after the poor dog had lost his original owner in such a horrible way. Most days he felt like Henry’s behavior was his penance.”
― Ava Miles, The Park of Sunset Dreams

“Forgiveness is as important as love. We all screw up.”
― Ava Miles, French Roast

“known what to do with, had”
― Ava Miles, The Chocolate Garden

“Take it from someone who knows. Fold your cards when the odds are against you.”
― Ava Miles, French Roast

“When it comes down to it, kids only believe in actions,” her mama told her. “Words are all good and dandy, but she’s at an age where she starts to see the divide we all come to see as we grow up. Some people are worth their words and others aren’t. Show her with your actions that she can count on you and that you care about her and her father. She wants him to be happy too.”
― Ava Miles, The Patchwork Quilt of Happiness

“Her brother had undergone a tremendous transformation from badass country singer to family man. She wished Clayton would do the same. As far as she could tell, he preferred relationships shorter than the expiration date on a gallon of milk—if that.”
― Ava Miles, Fireflies and Magnolias

“Sometimes peace only came from finding out what had happened to make life deviate from the path it should have taken.”
― Ava Miles, The Fountain of Infinite Wishes

“They’re no fun. Make me want”
― Ava Miles, Country Heaven

“She might have been drunk, but you know what they say—in vino veritas.”
― Ava Miles, The Bridge to a Better Life

“Well, let me give you some advice. You should listen to your own gut and not your family when it comes to your future.”
― Ava Miles, Country Heaven

“In the grand scheme of things, the world doesn’t end when our faults clash because it’s cushioned by love and commitment.”
― Ava Miles, Nora Roberts Land

“had her shivering from more than cold. She snapped her fingers. “Bastard.”
― Ava Miles, Nora Roberts Land