April Vaughan > April's Quotes

“Your heart, Bessie, is an autumn garage.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“All I know is we're 16 and ready to be kissed, kissed kissed.”
― Luanne Rice, Beach Girls

“Beach girls now, beach girls tomorrow, beach girls till the end of time.”
― Luanne Rice, Beach Girls

“Before dawn, the air smelled of lemons.”
― Luanne Rice, The Lemon Orchard

“Lord, make me a blessing to someone today.”
― Jan Karon, At Home in Mitford

“As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Voila! Bookshelves!”
― Jan Karon

“I'd like you to know that I've forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, of course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and prosecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.”
― Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs

“Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.”
― Luanne Rice

“Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.”
― Luanne Rice, Beach Girls

“The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.”
― Luanne Rice, Follow the Stars Home

“I know now that the most genuine happiness is kept afloat by an underlying sorrow.”
― Seré Prince Halverson, The Underside of Joy

“We all break the surface into this life already howling the cries of our ancestors, bearing their DNA, their eye colors and their scars, their glory and their shame. It is theirs; it is ours. It is the underside of joy.”
― Seré Prince Halverson, The Underside of Joy

“During those times, only under piles of blankets did she feel substantial enough not to drift away; they kept her weighted down and a part of the world. But eventually her dog's persistence and her own strong will would win over, and she'd drag herself up from the thick bog and go back to her chores and her books, carving the missing days into the wall so they did not escape entirely.”
― Seré Prince Halverson, All the Winters After

“That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours. ”
― Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane

“A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones. ”
― Kristin Hannah, Summer Island

“As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, making sure it runs rich and strong. She is the beating of my heart. I cannot now imagine a life without her.”
― Kristin Hannah, Summer Island

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“Life is like a box of chocolates.”
― Winston Groom, Gump and Co.

“I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.”
― Winston Groom, Forrest Gump

“I don't know if mama was right, that we each have a destiny, or if if was Lt Dan, that we are all just floating around, accidental, like on a breeze, but I think... I think... maybe... it's both happening at the same time.”
― Winston Groom, Forrest Gump

“Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

“Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, Blue Christmas

“And that point is, it doesn't matter how long you've known somebody. People change. Or you don't really know them as well as you thought you did in the first place.”
― Mary Kay Andrews, Summer Rental

“You have more issues than National Geographic by
Austin LeFleur in Hissy Fit”
― Mary Kay Andrews (Author)

“Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.”
― Danielle Steel, Happy Birthday

“Things work out the way they're meant to”
― Danielle Steel, No Greater Love

“Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
― Danielle Steel, The Gift