Lisa Tawn Bergren Quotes

#1. And sometimes, God asks us to wrestle with the unfamiliar until it becomes our new familiar. Until we can breathe freely in that new place.

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#2. Loyalty is not loyalty unless one clings to it in the face of adversity. No?

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#3. If I were a lucky girl I would have won the lottery or something. Maybe I had, I thought, staring dreamily at Marcello.

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#4. Fortes fortuna adiuvat, Marcello had said to his men. Fortune favors the brave, the bold.

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#5. How good it felt, to do some good, here and there. Perhaps this was what it meant to be an adult. To grab the opportunity at hand, make the most of the day, regardless of what it looked like.

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#6. My kingdom for a flush toilet.

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#7. Prayer is prayer, regardless of where you are.

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#8. If I live in fear of what might be, how can I truly live my life to the full in the present? And if I do not give myself to the day, to hope, to life, what do I miss?

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#9. How much did we do in life that was the result of what others around us demanded? Rather than what God was calling us to do?

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#10. Guys are just scared of beautiful girls, Dad said.
Sure, Dad, I said. Only ugly girls go to dances.
The right one will come around, he promised.
You'll see.

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#11. I looked up and beyond him again, focusing in on the horror that swords, arrows, clubs, and staffs left behind on human flesh. The open wounds. The blood, The brokenness. The inglorious remains of war.

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#12. I'm an introvert who can fake being an extrovert. I love people, but they exhaust me.

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#13. Twelve men in Forelli gold galloped past in pursuit, so fast I barely caught a glimpse. I edged out, torn between crying out to them and hesitating to interfere in a chase. But as I stepped forward, I knew that the man at the front was Marcello.

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#14. Beautiful Savior, King of creation, Son of God, and Son of Man! Truly I love Thee, Truly I serve Thee Light of my soul, my joy, my crown. Fair are the meadows, fair are the woodlands, Robed in flow'rs of blooming spring

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#15. It mattered not where they were married. It only mattered that they were together and never parted again.

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#16. One man's poison is another's elixir.

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#17. Fear is not of the Lord. It is of the Enemy. Do not give in to it.

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#18. We all have freedom of choice. Over and over again, minute by minute. How will you live your life? For yourself Or for others? For something good? For love? Love.

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#19. To him, the day was what was offered, not what wasn't.

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#20. Okay, try this on for size, Tall, Dark and Handsome. I won't be born for almost seven hundred hundred years. How's that strike you?

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#21. Don't rehearse your problems, Dad always said. Meaning, we were only supposed to go through our problems when they were actually upon us.

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#22. Together, come what may.

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#23. You had to admire a guy who wanted to keep you from death.

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#24. I nodded, pretending to be a hundred times more courageous than I felt.
But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.

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#25. She glanced left and right, all wide-eyed and innocent. Innocent as a streetwalker.

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#26. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than fear.

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#27. He moved to kiss my forehead, my eyes, my cheeks, my lips for several long, searching moments.
Right then, I wished we could stay together. Forever.

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#28. I smiled. He had come for me. Saved me. How many times would this man save my life?

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#29. We are well," Hugh said, looking me over with more intensity than seemed proper. "And you?"
"I'm well, thank you," I said, lying through my teeth. I'd been better the day I took to my bed with measles.

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#30. Were they laughing at me? I forced myself to block them from my mind, to concentrate on the lake, the water. What were they to me? People I met today, that was all. We shared blood. The One who mattered to me still found me worthy, still loved me, whether I knew when to curtsy properly or not.

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#31. Money. Man is always motivated by money, my dad said to me once. It can work for us, or it can enslave us. Even when we have much, we feel like we need more. No matter how much we have.

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#32. Fantasizing about an Italian hottie was far better than my normal dreams.

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#33. Life is not something we can manage or control. It's something we negotiate every time the path takes a turn.

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#34. And then we were gone, cascading back to the future.

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#35. Sometimes fear is something we must battle through. Other times it's something the Lord gives us to warn us to take heed.

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#36. You can't be any earthly good if your head is always in the heavens.

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#37. I believe it is always possible to draw closer to our Lord, whether it be during times of suffering or during times of celebration. It is all life, and all of life comes from God.

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#38. If I wasn't so happy he was alive, I would've killed him.

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#39. I have always loved you ... Since the first day I saw you, and even more with each day. The loving of you threatens to undo me now.

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#40. Because never had I hated another human being more than I hated Paratore in that moment.

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#41. Sometimes the heart tells us to venture where the mind fears to tread.

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#42. He smiled at me with that grin ... and I floated across the floor to him, my handsome prince.

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#43. We all belong to Him, from the cradle to the grave, whether we know it or not. And He'll see justice done in His own time and in His own way. Now if we trust in Him, that's all we have to think about. I'm not saying it's easy. I'm just saying it's what I think we're go do.

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#44. If he lived in my time, Marcello would've been in the running for Sexiest Man Alive in People. Rich, powerful, and hotter than wasabi, he was a force.
(Kindle Locations 766-767).

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#45. In a new country, it helps to remember the things that were good once, the things we want to recreate now.

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#46. Jesus is fairer, Jesus is purer He makes our sorrowing spirit sing.

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#47. Only one sort of man is worse than an Italian when it comes to their appetite for women."
"Oh? And what is that?"
"A Frenchmen.

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#48. I think the truth to living fully is to appreciate what we have, day by day, regardless of what we know might come our way.

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#49. For the first time that day, I felt as if I could breathe. As if this, this was what God was leading me to. Waiting, abiding, resting. Enjoying what was rather than fearing what might be or resenting what had come before.

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#50. And isn't part of your life doing something with the gifts God has given you?

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#51. I am here for a reason. This is no haphazard mistake. What good can I do with what I have?

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#52. Don't you agree? Swordplay is a dance of sorts, an understanding of the logical, most sophisticated next step. Except that in a fight, one must take the unexpected step. In dance it is all about taking the right, expected step.

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#53. An armed woman will be more of a target knights on the prowl.
and unarmed women can find themselves without defines

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#54. And sometimes, sometimes, wanting things, wishing for, working for them, is a good thing. Otherwise, we become nothing but spoiled boys and girls frustrated that we don't get every new toy we see.

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#55. His eyes opened, and he stared at me. The morning light was streaming through the window,and my hair rolled in waves over either shoulder.
God has smiled upon me. I have the most beautiful wife in all the land.

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#56. Rodolfo lifted Alessandra's hand to his lips and kissed it. 'I have loved you, Alessandra. Do not forget that. Thank you ... thank you for loving me.' She wept, curling her head in toward his good shoulder. 'Do not leave me, Rodolfo. Do not leave us. Chiara ... and the baby ...

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#57. Fear and worry are the antithesis of faith, are they not?
Every time I give in to concern about tomorrow, even my next hour, I rob this hour, this day if strength, peace. The Maker holds all my days. Do I trust him with them or not?

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#58. I read once that courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than that fear.

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#59. I finally meet a guy who's interesting and who seems to have a half-interest in me and it is TOTALLY the wrong time and place.

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#60. What could I do, to make the most of this day, whether I was in my own day, or this one? What amazing history was I seeing firsthand? Would I embrace it, instead of crying and whining? Was it in me to be grateful for my situation? Truly in me?

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#61. To not try at all is a form of murder itself.

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#62. He hesitated, as if wrestling with the desire to cross the space between us and kiss me until I admitted I was just a tiny bit in love with him too. But he didn't. He didn't.

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#63. I believe this country has already been painted by the hand of God. We can cover it over with our own creations, but it will merely mar what is already perfect

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#64. If you both care for each other more than you care for yourself, your marriage will endure all.

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#65. Well, hello there," I said, "you big, beautiful overgrown passageway." I looked over to Lia. "Let's confuse 'em a little.

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#66. Nothing like the tour to show people how poorly they fit together.

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