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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

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

“She told me to never let the past completely steal my joy in the present.”
― Ava Miles, The Fountain of Infinite Wishes

“We give birth to y’all, and the least you could do is talk to us proper and treat us right.”
― Ava Miles, The Moonlight Serenade

“There is nothing wrong with being a passionate woman, Abbie. The passion inside you has finally emerged, and I feel privileged to be a part of that.”
― Ava Miles, The Moonlight Serenade

“And I bought into it—hook, line, and sinker.”
― Ava Miles, Nora Roberts Land

“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

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

“Her knees hurt like she had a sprain when she trudged out of the kitchen. Even though he sure seemed to like food, he was fit, built. Broad shoulders.”
― Ava Miles, Country Heaven

“Forcing your memories into a box and sealing them off is different than letting them go,”
― Ava Miles, Home Sweet Love

“She’d gone cold turkey on Nora’s books a year ago, when her ex-husband, Rick-the-Dick, threw Black Hills at the wall, snarling that her favorite author had given her an unrealistic view of love. “Our marital problems are her fault,” he said. “She’s made you believe in happily ever after—something any adult knows is a myth. Grow up.” Then he packed his custom-tailored suits and slammed out the door of their swanky Manhattan apartment.”
― Ava Miles, Nora Roberts Land

“You reach deep inside you, find your inner strength, and do what you know what you must do.”
― Ava Miles, The Patchwork Quilt of Happiness