12 Quotes by Rachel McMillan

Love meant accepting the lowest of a person. The parts that made you tingle and shrug. Love saw through every fight and stilled every fear and weathered every doubt. Love meant pushing past perceptions and surmounting expectations and accepting that someone would never always live up to the ideals that you imparted on them.

Women were a crossword puzzle: the seemingly perfect word was met with too many letters

His father had told him that a person could usually know within a short amount of time if a place would be something special—something familiar—or if you were destined to always be a visitor.

It was easy to screw your head on straight; it was quite another matter to expect your heart to behave in turn.

Sometimes we open the next chapter in our life’s book and find ourselves on the other side of the world. But sometimes the next chapter allows us the gift of turning back a few pages and rediscovering something new in the words of our life. It requires only an adventurous spirit and an openness to revisit the places that inform who we are today.

Sometimes stories are in the people whose life's pages no one thinks of turning.

Sometimes stories are in the people whose life’s pages no one thinks of turning.

God is the greatest mystery. And when you believe in something, no matter how grand, no matter how invincible, you are willing to do anything, however preposterous, tosee it to its solution.

He looked her over, appraising her, and she saw her worth reflected in the sheen of his eyes. He treasured her, despite every flaw, despite every rough edge. He cherished every imperfection. It startled her. She should rise to be worthy of this unadulterated love, shouldn’t she? Heat flamed her face. She was careless in undermining Jasper’s passion. His authority. She didn’t deserve the way the way he looked at her.