Becky Wade Quotes

#1. Reason number five hundred why it was advisable to have oneself for a boss: Even when you hadn't earned it, you could still treat yourself to a coffee break.

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#2. He'd sacrifice even his sanity for her. If it came down to it, he'd let her break his heart.
Because he loved her.

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#3. This was thing about temptations. God didn't take them away. They were there - powerful and still needing to be dealt with. If you gave them an inch of leeway, they had the dark strength to take you under.

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#4. It really wasn't fair that Matt should be so gorgeous. I mean, really. It was just wrong. Nice-looking was one thing. But over the top beautiful?

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#5. What about Matt?" Theresa asked.
"Matt?"
Theresa shrugged. "He's hotness. If you weren't attracted to him you wouldn't have a pulse.

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#6. He was defeated. Competitive him, who'd spent most of his life perfecting the art of winning. He'd been trounced by a woman. Killed with one look from those hazel eyes.

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#7. Shh. Please don't cry. I'm so sorry. Here.
She opened her eyes to see him pull a tissue from his jeans. He handed it to her and she used it to press away her tears.
He carried tissues around in his pockets for her, even on nights when he had no expectation of seeing her.

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#8. He could look into your eyes and without saying a word assure you that you were the most fascinating woman in the world and call you beautiful in six languages.

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#9. The force of his presence careened into Nora like a hundred-mile-an-hour wind. In response, she could do nothing but hold her ground and blink.

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#10. Faith is moving ahead in obedience, dear. Just moving ahead one step at a time, trusting Him, until He shows you what's next. He'll make it clear to you eventually. Sure as anything.

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#11. He frowned back. He wasn't a charity case. Nor was he a man whose mind was easily changed. Redheaded librarians who used big words didn't scare him.

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#12. I called them," Dru said, "after the first ten minutes of knocking on your door. I figured I might need them to smooth things over if I had to shoot my way inside.

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#13. She didn't realize she was fiddling with the back of her earring until he took hold of her hand and pressed a kiss into her palm. Without a word, he pulled her into his lap, surrounded her with the two flaps of his corduroy jacket, and hugged her against him.

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#14. Addie was the greatest joy of Celia's life. Not a burden. Not a tragedy. A gift. A gift that God had perhaps insisted on giving her even when, in fear, she'd asked for the opposite.

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#15. You have to go where I lead you, right?
Unless I taser you. Then you'll have to go where I drag you.

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#16. He was too handsome, too strong-willed, too wealthy, too daring, and otherwise not ideal.

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#17. Loving someone wasn't about their perfection. It was about coming to accept every part of them, their good qualities at their weaknesses and flaws
looking on everything they were and loving it all.
As she looked on everything Jake was, right down to his center, she loved him.

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#18. He never promised us that we wouldn't suffer. But He's too just not to redeem it. And He does promise us that He won't leave us. That He'll be with us through the worst. That He loves us.

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#19. How was she going to do it? She didn't know. She had a hundred questions and just one answer. But the one answer she had trumped all the questions.
That answer? God.

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#20. He loved her with a pursuing love that she could scarcely comprehend. Her mistakes had been paid for. Miracle of miracles, they'd been paid for. And now she needed only to have faith in Him and accept the waterfall of His grace.

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#21. She'd flown bareback across wide-open Texas land. She'd once shot a charging boar and never flinched. She'd put her life at risk for her country without a complaint. She was not a weakling.

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#22. There could be no more welcome sight in the life of a single woman than that of a hunk with a dish towel over his shoulder bringing you a cupcake.

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#23. You have to go where I lead you, Don you? Unless I teaser you. Then you have to go where I drag you.

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#24. She'd faced some hard knocks in life - one really hard one five years ago - and had managed to cultivate a protective shell for herself. But like a Godiva truffle, she was only hard in a thin outer layer. Her insides were still as tender as ever.

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#25. Where there's God, there's hope," she said. "And where there's hope, there can be healing.

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#26. He'd sacrifice much for her. He'd do anything she asked of him. He'd pay any price, except one.
The price of giving her up.

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#27. Saint Bo, a man christened with the miraculous ability to gentle horses, nervous women, and one year olds.

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#28. For the second time today, someone had made him his favorite. But only one woman had gotten it right. Chicken-fried steak had been his favorite years ago. His tastes had changed.

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#29. I'm glad I ran into you. It was true. Seeing him shirtless and sweaty was like a shot in the arm. She now felt like she had the hormone power to walk for miles.

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#30. She'd been hired to protect him. But he'd come to a place where he'd do anything, give anything, risk anything to protect her.

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#31. His glittering gaze took in her outfit, then returned to meet her eyes. "You trying to give me a stroke, countess? Because you've just about done it.

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#32. Funny thing about prayers. God hears them. But you just never know if, when, or how He's going to answer them.

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