Barritt's Quotes

#1. Christy Barritt's novel, Hazardous Duty, is a delightful read from beginning to end. The story's fresh, engaging heroine with an unusual occupation hooked me, and I couldn't put it down. I highly recommend Hazardous Duty.

Colleen Coble

#2. Simple. If something's out of my hands, I don't worry about it.

Christy Barritt

#3. She wanted someone to reach down and see her and think she was worthy of saving. Not because she was more special than anyone else. But just because she needed to know she was loved.

Christy Barritt

#4. Nor was I following how someone who seemed so sweet and genteel at Bible study was acting like someone who'd contracted mad cow disease. Or maybe politics made people act slightly demon-possessed.

Christy Barritt

#5. When an invading force crosses a river in its onward march, do not advance to meet it in mid-stream. It will be best to let half the army get across, and then deliver your attack.

Sun Tzu

#6. you have to embrace forgiveness if you love someone. Everyone's going to mess up. Everyone's going to need grace. It works both ways.

Christy Barritt

#7. Antoine, you have a phone call." Chef Fanelli

Christy Barritt

#8. It was a slow fade from belief to disbelief, one that was so gradual she hardly realized it was happening.

Christy Barritt

#9. Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

John Leonard

#10. I've been down in Florida since 1979. When you're born in Nebraska you really can't explain it.

Larry The Cable Guy

#11. Okay then, can the police take the plants and leave Kevin? They aren't his plants, he's just looking after them as a concerned environmentalist.

Kristen Ashley

#12. Nobody comes back from the pirates," he muttered. "Ever.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#13. [To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly.

Queen Elizabeth II

#14. Whenever a treaty of peace is signed, God is present.

Nachman Of Breslov

#15. That would probably scare her off but good.

Christy Barritt

#16. Through the grace of God,I'm a victor not a victim.

Christy Barritt

#17. I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.

Thomas Becket

#18. Time is the wisest counsellor of all

Pericles

#19. Though I constantly felt like I was out of my comfort zone, maybe God wanted me totally in a place of uneasiness in order that I might rely on Him. Truly, His power could be made perfect in my weakness.

Christy Barritt

#20. For so long I've viewed God as someone who takes away things in my life. Lately I've been reminded of what He brings to my life - things like peace and faith and hope.

Christy Barritt

#21. Perhaps when she'd become disillusioned with God, she'd become disillusioned with many things: love, loyalty, friendship. They were all somehow connected.

Christy Barritt

#22. I was Ms. Put My Foot in My Mouth, Speak Before Thinking, and Trip over Imaginary Lint.

Christy Barritt

#23. Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

Jane Austen

#24. sometimes responsibilities dictated your life, and you just had to make the best of what you had.

Christy Barritt

#25. If you find something that gets hold of you in the Word, pass it on to somebody that very day.

E. Stanley Jones

#26. Hurts come because we live in a world where God has given men free will. But God is love. A loving father gives his children, once they're of age, the ability to make their own choices. Our Heavenly Father does the same, and because of that, chaos sometimes ensues.

Christy Barritt

#27. The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.

Chauncey Wright

#28. As a historical novelist, there is very little I like more than spending time sorting through boxes of old letters, diaries, maps, trinkets, and baubles.

Sara Sheridan

#29. a few rungs short in the ladder leading to logic land.

Christy Barritt

#30. Good always wins over evil.

Christy Barritt

#31. Civilizations do fail. We have never seen one that hasn't. The difference is that the torch of progress has, in the past, always passed to another region of the world. But we now for the first time have a single, global civilization. If it fails, we all fail together.

John Brockman