Karen Kingsbury

Novelist

1963-06-08

Quotes by Karen Kingsbury

• But the Beast was a good person...the Prince looked on the outside the way the Beast was on the inside. Sometimes people couldn't see the inside of the person unless they like the outside of a person. Because they hadn't learned to hear the music yet.

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• The next time that boy pursues you, he better do it like a dying man looking for water in a desert. When it's the right guy, you'll know, because he'll cherish you.

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• Goodbyes are on of the hardest things about life. One way or another people were always leaving... Always moving on.

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• For a long while she only looked at him ... as if she didn't want to interrupt the beautiful moment with words.

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• And like that, the decades disappeared and the memory of that night came to life again. The way John had known it would. He didn't fight it, didn't work to stay in the here and now. If he was going to go back, then he wanted to relive it. All of it.

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• I tell of hearts and souls and dances...Butterflies and second chances;Desperate ones and dreamers bound,Seeking life from barren ground,Who suffer on in earthly fateThe bitter pain of agony hate,Might but they stop and here forgiveWould break the bonds to breathe and liveAnd find that God in goodness bringsA chance for change, the hope of wingsTo rest in Him, and self to dieAnd so become a butterfly.

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• Real love never fails.

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• The truth was this: Love is a decision.

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• Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.

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• For a long while she only looked at him ... as if she didn't want to interrupt the beautiful moment with words.

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• But the Beast was a good person...the Prince looked on the outside the way the Beast was on the inside. Sometimes people couldn't see the inside of the person unless they like the outside of a person. Because they hadn't learned to hear the music yet.

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• And like that, the decades disappeared and the memory of that night came to life again. The way John had known it would. He didn't fight it, didn't work to stay in the here and now. If he was going to go back, then he wanted to relive it. All of it.

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• Goodbyes are on of the hardest things about life. One way or another people were always leaving... Always moving on.

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• I tell of hearts and souls and dances...Butterflies and second chances;Desperate ones and dreamers bound,Seeking life from barren ground,Who suffer on in earthly fateThe bitter pain of agony hate,Might but they stop and here forgiveWould break the bonds to breathe and liveAnd find that God in goodness bringsA chance for change, the hope of wingsTo rest in Him, and self to dieAnd so become a butterfly.

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• The truth was this: Love is a decision.

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• Real love never fails.

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• Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.

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• The next time that boy pursues you, he better do it like a dying man looking for water in a desert. When it's the right guy, you'll know, because he'll cherish you.

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• I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

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