Katherine Reay Quotes & Sayings

Your options are endless if you fight. — Katherine Reay

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

I'm not guaranteed a happy ending just because I make it to the last page. — Katherine Reay

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. — Katherine Reay

We didn't talk much, and the silence hung like a silk curtain, light and lovely. — Katherine Reay

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. — Katherine Reay

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

my best friends. He got a kick out of being in my book. — Katherine Reay

Have you ever confused your senses? Something taste like another thing smells? — Katherine Reay

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. — Katherine Reay

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. — Katherine Reay

My childhood wasn't easy. I buried myself in books. I guess I'm a recovering book addict. — Katherine Reay

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? — Katherine Reay

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

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. — Katherine Reay

Never let something so unworthy define you. — Katherine Reay

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

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. — Katherine Reay

Lucy reached in her bag and pulled out the book, knowing exactly where to search. I thank my Maker, that, in the midst of judgment, he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead henceforth a purer life than I have done hitherto. There it was. Mercy. Grace. And just as she'd told James, fiction conveyed change and truth and was loved and digested again and again because it reflected the worst, the best, and all the moments in between of the human experience. — Katherine Reay

Artists create things that point us to beauty, to truth, to God. — Katherine Reay

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

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

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. — Katherine Reay

While I don't believe in love at first sight, because I think it takes more work than that, I do believe that one soul can speak to another and find an inexplicably deep connection over a short period of time, unimaginably short, and know that it will never forget that soul, that moment, or the light it emits forever. — Katherine Reay

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? — Katherine Reay

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 — Katherine Reay

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

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

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. — Katherine Reay

It felt as if that moment, no matter the outcome between life and death, it was love that mattered and the only thing that could bridge a link between the two. For Andy. For Brian. For me. There were my shallow waters. The cakes? The potpies? Those came from my heart. The clothes, the face creams, and even Feast? None of it is bad, but none of it worthy of defining me or worth of defining love. And yet those were the objects of my affection, my time, my work, and my life. — Katherine Reay

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

Don't hang on to the past so tightly that you taint the future. — Katherine Reay

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. — Katherine Reay

Changing, being real and becoming who you want to be, is hard work. Right — Katherine Reay

All real lives hold controversy, trials, mistakes, and regrets. What matters is what you do next. — Katherine Reay

Self-protection keeps you from love, Mr. Knightley-all love. I am so sad at how I've kept them at a distance-the Muirs, Alex, Father John, Kyle, Hannah ... Anyone and everyone who has ever stood by me. I played God in our relationships. I determined their value by how much I let them in, by how much I let them determine my worth. I'm not God. And I don't need to work so hard anymore ... — Katherine Reay

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. — Katherine Reay

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

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. — Katherine Reay

Writing helps me process things, but these emotions are too much, too foreign. And — Katherine Reay