Top 100 Francine Quotes
#1. He was so strong," Francine sobbed. "So proud. So much dignity. How did he die?"
"Wood chipper," said Valkyrie.
Derek Landy
#2. Before Dwayne entered his inner office, he read one of many comical signs which Francine had put up on the wall in order to amuse people, to remind them of what they so easily forgot: that people didn't have to be serious all the time.
Kurt Vonnegut
#3. I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your heart, they tear it to shreds." ~Francine Rivers; Redeeming Love
Francine Rivers
#4. We're not robbing him," Skulduggery said." But I'm afraid I have some bad news."
"Is it Deacon?" Francine asked, her eyes wide.
"It is."
"Is he sick?"
"It's a little worse than that."
She gasped. "He's dying?"
"He was briefly dying," said Skulduggery. "Now he's dead.
Derek Landy
#5. Yes, well, how was I to know you would be so dramatic? Really, Francine, I don't know where you get it from." Then she primly grabbed the fowling gun before departing from the room.
Jade Lee
#6. When Ben arrived, he was having a bad hair day. He looked like Francine from those Arthur cartoons on PBS, and yet I was still very attracted to him.
Courtney Robertson
#7. Francine looked up and mouthed, "Thank you." "any titme," I lied.
Sloane Crosley
#8. Don't make light of werewolves, Jessica,' Luke said in a quiet voice. 'They're very serious business.
Francine Pascal
#9. Bithia seemed wise in the ways of the world, but she was completely ignorant of what she brought upon herself. Commerce with the powers of darkness might gain her what she desired for the moment, but at what cost in the end?
Francine Rivers
#10. Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?
Francine Rivers
#11. My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.
Francine Jay
#12. I start work by spending time in personal Bible study. Because my projects center on a question in my own faith walk, I find Bible study essential. And God gives me scriptures daily that speak to the question with which I'm struggling.
Francine Rivers
#13. Who are you to say whether she is of use? She is alive! That is statement enough.
Francine Rivers
#14. The Holy Spirit comes to dwell within us when we believe in Christ and are redeemed. It is through the Spirit that God reveals mysteries to us, for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.
Francine Rivers
#17. True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.
Francine Rivers
#18. What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is she gets to marry this blind guy who's toasted his wife in the attic." -Angela Argo "Blue Angel
Francine Prose
#19. People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.
Francine Prose
#20. Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.
Francine Rivers
#22. I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.
Francine Prose
#23. Love one another, Jesus said. Sometimes it took a lifetime to learn how. Sometimes it took someone to hit rock bottom to make someone reach up and grasp hold and be lifted from the mire to stand on a firm foundation.
Francine Rivers
#24. I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved.
Francine Mathews
#25. For if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. ROMANS 10:9-10
Francine Rivers
#26. Also discovered my inward happiness and my defensive armor of superficiality and gaiety.
Francine Prose
#27. I want you to love me. I want you to trust me enough to let me love you, and I want you to stay here with me so we can build a life together. That's what I want
Francine Rivers
#28. Because, for some of us, one mile can be farther to walk than thirty.
Francine Rivers
#29. As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king David. A man after God's own heart.
Francine Rivers
#30. Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.
Francine Busby
#31. Another reason for right living is that you know how late it is; time is running out. Wake up, for the coming of our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. ROMANS 13:11
Francine Rivers
#32. I've always found that the better the book I'm reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.
Francine Prose
#33. If I were ever to go mad it would be on Thanksgiving Day, that day of guilt and grace when the family hangs upon you like an ax over a sacrificial victim, like the oven's heat on that poor bird.
Francine Du Plessix Gray
#35. Elizabeth scowled, feeling like a nobody, a nothing. She felt like her entire self had been made worthless. She could change her interests, but she couldn't change her looks. She'd never be six feet tall. She'd never look like a supermodel.
Francine Pascal
#36. Mine [parents] started out more from scratch, because I'm constantly aware of what they suffered in the war.
Francine Du Plessix Gray
#38. Perhaps it was the approach of death that had opened his eyes wide and made him see so clearly.
Francine Rivers
#39. Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.
Francine Prose
#40. We are not what we own; we are what we do, what we think and who we love.
Francine Jay
#41. I actually worked in the general market for many years writing steamy historical romance, and I had more freedom in the Christian market than I ever did in the general market to write about any issue that I needed to write about.
Francine Rivers
#42. She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement.
Francine Pascal
#44. Something about the beauty of the library and how many books there were made me feel really eager to read, and I couldn't wait to get some free time so I could go back there and explore.
Francine Prose
#45. Good writing should be grasped at once - in a second.
Francine Prose
#46. Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and wonderful results. JAMES 5:16
Francine Rivers
#47. The great greatest gift you can give him is the freedom to spread his wings.
Francine Rivers
#48. Bob grinned. 'Wear that white swimsuit you bought last week, OK?' he said. 'I want all the other guys to wish you were their girlfriend.'
Sara felt vaguely uncomfortable, but she ignored the sensation. Bob just wanted her to look her best, she figured. There was nothing wrong with that.
Francine Pascal
#50. When two oxen are yoked together, they must pull in the same direction, Marcus. If one pulls to the right, and the other to the left, what happens?
Francine Rivers
#51. But if we hope for what we do not have, we wait for it patiently. ROMANS 8 : 25
Francine Rivers
#52. Sarah and Michael shared many happy years together. On their seventh anniversary, their prayers were answered with the birth of a son, Stephen. Stephen was followed by Luke, Lydia, and Esther.
Francine Rivers
#53. I used to believe the purpose in life is to find happiness. I don't believe that anymore. I believe we are all given gifts from our Father, and that our purpose is to offer them to Him. He knows how He wants us to use them.
Francine Rivers
#54. She'll probably have all the work made up and a dozen stories written for The Oracle before I finish that one stupid book report on Moby Dick. I mean, Todd, who really cares about whales?'
Todd did, but he let the comment slide by.
Francine Pascal
#55. My job is to allow the character to live and breathe - and become as real to the reader as he or she is to me.
Francine Rivers
#56. I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.
Francine Busby
#58. Jesus was with her, but she couldn't see Him; she couldn't touch Him. Never one for hugs and kisses from anyone but Niclas, she missed human touch. Why
Francine Rivers
#59. Better than sweet tea on a veranda. I want to live at Belmont!
Francine Rivers
#60. Michael straightened. "I still married her, and I'd marry her again if I had it to do over." A simple statement, calmly and quietly delivered, but his eyes were burning with wrath.
Francine Rivers
#61. We try to do a little better than the previous generation and find out in the end we've made the same mistakes without intending. Instead of striving to love as God first loved us, we let past hurts and grievances rule. Ignorance is no excuse.
Francine Rivers
#63. Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.
Francine Rivers
#64. It probably all boils down to three magic words: I don't care. And nobody can make me.
Francine Pascal
#65. Julia was blind and deaf to to the truth. She was ignorant. Did one reprove a blind woman for inability to see? Did one become angry with the deaf for not hearing?
Francine Rivers
#66. I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart.
Francine Rivers
#67. Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.
Francine Mathews
#68. I learned a long time ago we've control of little in this world, Amanda. It doesn't belong to us. It's out of our hands. Like being born or being sold into prostitution at eight. All we can change is the way we think and the way we live.
Francine Rivers
#69. Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.
Francine Rivers
#71. In Bruce's opinion, the only fun in dating was the sport of it. The more it was like a tennis match, where he had to wear down his opponent through expertise and sheer force of will, the better he liked it.
Francine Pascal
#72. Only later did he remember his pride-and the shattering cost of an illusive sense of freedom.
Francine Rivers
#73. It broke her heart, but a good mother teaches her children to fly. Some,
Francine Rivers
#75. Song of Solomon told me a man and woman's passion is intended to be mutual." His smile dissolved and he looked troubled. "A shared blessing.
Francine Rivers
#77. Each time a thought came knocking on the door of her mind, she viewed it cautiously. Was it true? Was it honorable? Was it pure or lovely? Was it of good repute?
Francine Rivers
#78. Why I Wrote Redeeming Love Many born-again Christians talk about a single conversion experience that changed their lives forever. They can tell you the day and the hour they made their decision to live for the Lord. I can't do that.
Francine Rivers
#79. It's not just that I'm a horny seventeen year old male and she's a beautiful girl, although I don't necessarily expect you to believe me.
Francine Pascal
#80. Perhaps Aquinas's notably soft line on gluttony may have had something to do with the fact that the saint was said to have had what today we might call a weight problem.
Francine Prose
#81. She was scornful. "He talks to you personally?" "He talks to everyone personally. Most people just don't bother to listen.
Francine Rivers
#82. Angel, Michael's still waiting for you to come home." Her face went deathly white. "It's been over three years. He can't still be waiting." "He is.
Francine Rivers
#83. Why couldn't he trust that the Lord would do the same for her? Because he knew she didn't believe.
Francine Rivers
#84. We're each single threads woven together in a tapestry God has created. Only he sees the full picture, but not even a sparrow falls without his knowing.
Francine Rivers
#85. All our parents have levels of deviousness. We're driven to write about this discrepancy between the bright shining selves they invented and the monsters lurking underneath.
Francine Du Plessix Gray
#86. You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you don't get anything.
Francine Prose
#87. A cult!' Elizabeth gasped. 'Here? In Sweet Valley? But that's impossible!
Francine Pascal
#88. The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!
Francine Pascal
#89. Dana was lead singer for The Droids, Sweet Valley High's answer to the Rolling Stones. They had a reputation for being pretty wild, but most of it was just conjecture. Not many outsiders knew what went on in the smoky confines of Max Dellon's basement, where they held their practice sessions.
Francine Pascal
#90. The appeal was so often the same: Make me comfortable so I can go on doing whatever I want to do. They wanted sin without consequences.
Francine Rivers
#92. But the eyes of the Lord are watching over those who fear him, who rely upon his steady love. "He will keep them from death. . . ." Psalm 33:18
Francine Rivers
#93. A pretty face and a beautiful body blind a man more quickly than any poker through the eyes.
Francine Rivers
#94. She can take Dad to that new-wave nightclub downtown, where all those strange couples in their twenties hang out.
Francine Pascal
#95. The documents were in English - sort of - but the language was so convoluted that it was beginning to give her a headache. It made for even duller reading than her chemistry text.
Francine Pascal
#96. I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.
Francine Prose
#97. She only had this moment, and she must fulfill it worthily. Of what use was it to allow herself regret and grief, to ponder endlessly what she might have done differently?
Francine Rivers
#98. We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck out against him. In anger. In disappointment. Yet, it is God's will that prevails.
Francine Rivers
#99. You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too.
Francine Pascal
#100. Ever since her obsession with Jonathan Cain, a deranged transfer student who had been at Sweet Valley for a month, Enid's life had been entirely guyless.
Francine Pascal
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