Melissa Tagg Quotes & Sayings

But better to be out on the floor doing something - even if it couldn't exactly be called dancing - than playing wallflower, with only painful memories for company. — Melissa Tagg

You can't let the thought of what other people expect be your compass, Ava. — Melissa Tagg

I'm just saying, Ave, you might dress in jeans and a T-shirt and never wear your hair down and talk about how you're a football-loving tomboy, but you're also very much an attractive woman, and any man would be blind not to see it, and maybe that's a weird thing for one friend to say to another, and now I think I might be rambling because I'm embarrassed that I said it. But whatever. It's the truth. — Melissa Tagg

Maybe the real freedom is in letting go of the what-ifs. Choosing hopeful expectation over worry that life is going to shortchange you. — Melissa Tagg

Maybe that was the best part. The beautiful peace that came with
living her own story, knowing every turn of the page and tug of the
heart was a new beginning. — Melissa Tagg

Life's greatest adventure is love. Loving each other, loving others. And being loved--first by God, then by each other. There's no better purpose. — Melissa Tagg

He could lose himself in the copper warmth of her eyes. Except, no, this wasn't losing himself. This was finding something precious. — Melissa Tagg

For the record, Maren voted hot. Drew voted cold. They both voted a la mode. Because, honestly, what's the point of pie without ice cream? — Melissa Tagg

Sometimes believing is a matter of deciding. Deciding who you're going to trust and what you know about who you trust. — Melissa Tagg

He's like a little kid finally getting to play with his pen pal in person. — Melissa Tagg

Why was it that a person could forget a thousand moments over a lifetime but never purge the one memory she truly wanted to forget? — Melissa Tagg

Ah, arguing with Ava Kingsley. Just like old times." Only back in college they'd argued in print - weekly. — Melissa Tagg

Man, all those years in college we didn't get along, I could've just given you a pie and, bam, new best friend. — Melissa Tagg

But as much as life is sometimes about knowing what you want and going after it and finishing, maybe other times it's about slowing down and shutting up and waiting. There's not always a clear beginning and obvious end. Sometimes we're in the middle . . . and it's okay to camp out there for a while. — Melissa Tagg

No, she'd simply had no energy to clean the place out after Robbie left. Interesting, though, how seeing the ease of familiarity with which Matthew moved around the cabin blurred the ghost of Robbie. — Melissa Tagg

Well, she'd been in shock. She could've believed just about anything. The Easter Bunny, tooth fairy, Santa... Yes, Virginia, men do let you down. — Melissa Tagg

But I don't know if Seth was actually serious." "Ask him in one of your bazillion emails. Sheesh. — Melissa Tagg

He stood and reached for the package, seeing his name in Ava's handwriting - and a note underneath the address. Don't open until the restaurant's grand opening. He grinned as he pulled off the tape. Raegan tsked. "Didn't you see the note?" "Rae, I guarantee you when Ava wrote that she knew I'd ignore it. — Melissa Tagg

Sometimes we have to let history rest to make way for what's coming next. — Melissa Tagg

She likes you so much it makes her not like you. — Melissa Tagg

The truth is, I would've felt empty anywhere. I realize now that through a million moments of adventure and excitement, I was only trying to make up for the one moment I wanted to forget. — Melissa Tagg

I'm the cook, Seth. I could take a stove apart and put it back together, but dishwashers aren't my thing. — Melissa Tagg