Katherine Reay Quotes

#1. How can I not believe that there is a God who exists and loves, when the people before me are infused with that love and pour it out daily?

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#2. And it's yellow. The way pale yellow should look, like sunshine and butter, mixed with hope and cream.

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#3. Darcy's got the tempestuous masculinity and brooding looks, but Knightley is a kinder, softer man with no pretense or dissimilation.

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#4. Changing, being real and becoming who you want to be, is hard work. Right

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#5. All real lives hold controversy, trials, mistakes, and regrets. What matters is what you do next.

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#6. People forget your face after a book tour or an infrequent appearance on Letterman, but put your face on your books and you're handing them your life. They presume to know what you think or who you are.

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#7. Never let something so unworthy define you.

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#8. I'm not guaranteed a happy ending just because I make it to the last page.

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#9. More education and better job prospects, it also meant living at Grace House another two years. At the time I couldn't face

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#10. We didn't talk much, and the silence hung like a silk curtain, light and lovely.

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#11. Honesty is easier when you have no face and no real name. And honesty, for me, is very easy on paper.

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#12. Love spills out of these people. That's what I want. Settling for anything less is a lie.

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#13. And, Mr. Knightley, forget my theory about Icarus. If you don't sail high, with the risk of crashing and burning, do you really live? Can you love? I doubt it. I'm ready to fly. Love, Sam

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#14. Do you ever feel like there are plans for you? Not ones you make, but plans for good that will come about if you trust and remain patient?

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#15. Do you know what that's like? A gun held to your head? Your life doesn't flash before your eyes; it stops. Mine stopped, and there was nothing, nothing in me. I didn't exist.

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#16. Artists create things that point us to beauty, to truth, to God.

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#17. Have you ever confused your senses? Something taste like another thing smells?

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#18. My dear, what in your life has ever come close to fair? That's not how this life works.

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#19. Maybe that's what love is - sacrificing yourself to save another, taking the insult or taking the hit.

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#20. My new favorite title is How Jane Austen Ruined My Life. I don't have the courage to read it, though. I'm afraid to discover she's ruined mine as well.

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#21. Don't hang on to the past so tightly that you taint the future.

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#22. He reminds me of a comfortable sweater that you pull on, knowing it will keep you warm every time.

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#23. It is nothing to say lovely things to someone who expects them, needs them. The beauty is when one who does not expect them comes to believe them - that only happens when the compliments and the love behind them are sincere.

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#24. My childhood wasn't easy. I buried myself in books. I guess I'm a recovering book addict.

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#25. Writing helps me process things, but these emotions are too much, too foreign. And

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#26. All the books have it ... That time when you don't know where you'll be, but you can't stay as you are. In life or in literature, that time rarely feels good.

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#27. People aren't always what they appear, James. The gift is accepting them as who they are, not who we want them to be.

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#28. Samantha will be just as polite as I am, my dear. She won't be objective at all ... no wait! She corrected my Shakespeare. Maybe she will give you an honest opinion. Let's keep her.

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#29. I've heard all sorts of things about a kiss (melting, fireworks, music), but no one ever told me it's a conversation: asking, accepting, deciding, inviting, giving ... Questions posed and answered.

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#30. Your options are endless if you fight.

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#31. I'll be there. I smiled. I'll be there - when you call, when you're hurt, when you're sick, when you're lonely, when life is overwhelming, when you're scared. I'll be there.

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#32. I closed my eyes to hug him tighter and give him that elusive feeling of unconditional love and complete safety. The feeling we seek but, in this life and in this world, perhaps never quite find.

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#33. my best friends. He got a kick out of being in my book.

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#34. The day we forget the horror, Sam, we will repeat it. Never forget your past. It will make you less human, less than human.

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#35. I don't think we get exempt from the pain because we live good lives. Some circumstances we can't control - in fact, most are truly beyond our abilities. Instead maybe it's how we get made new; it's one of the only times we slow down enough to listen and receive grace, real grace.

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#36. I mean that reading forms your opinions, your worldview, especially childhood reading, and anything that does that has an impact. So call them friends, call some stories enemies if you want, but don't deny their influence.

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