Top 180 Debbie Macomber Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “When I first learned that Paul had been killed, the grief had been all-consuming, and I didn’t think I would be able to go on. Yet life continues to move forward, and so have I, dragging from one day into the next until I found I could breathe normally.”

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52. “We all make mistakes. The key is learning from those mistakes and not repeating them.”

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53. “Romance focuses on emotions and on relationships, both of which are fundamentally important to women.”

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54. “I’ve always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn’t have the opportunity to attend college, so I did what young women my age did at the time – I married.”

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55. “Sam,” Beth said, as she placed her hand on his arm. Looking at him, her eyes were full of love. “This is the Christmas surprise I mentioned. That beautiful young girl with that gift for music is your daughter, Luci.”

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56. “She kept thinking about their meal at Zorba’s. The recipes were the same as they’d been years ago, but the experience wasn’t.”

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57. “The thing I’ve learned – and trust me, I’m no expert- is that forgiveness isn’t a gift we give the offender. It’s something we do for ourselves.”

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58. “I’m dyslexic, although they didn’t have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had ’word blindness.”

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59. “I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters.”

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60. “Mark Twain wrote somewhere that the worst winter he ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.”

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61. “You’re so authentic. You are who you are and you aren’t willing to apologize for it. I like that.”

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62. “He was, without a doubt, the most masculine male Bailey had ever seen –.”

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63. “I generally read every night before I fall asleep: Brad does too. I find it comforting to lie beside my husband, each of us with a book in our hands. I see it as a period of calm and intimacy, and as the perfect metaphor-together, yet individual-for our marriage.”

— Debbie Macomber

64. “Guide to Moving On. The first item on that list was: Don’t allow yourself to wallow in your pain. Reach out. Volunteer. Do something you love or something to help others.”

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65. “Christmas is a condition of the heart,” she continued, and as she spoke she planted a hand over her chest. “It’s being open and sincere, generous and kind to those with less, or showing our love to those we cherish.”

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66. “She’d taken ten years off his life, frightening him the way she had, and now he’d easily subtracted another ten by kissing her. If he spent much more time with Jenna Campbell, he’d be dead inside a week.”

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67. “Isn’t that the way life goes? Just when everything seems perfect and nothing could possibly go wrong, then, boom, you’re tossed onto your butt, wondering what in the name of heaven happened.”

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68. “I’ve lived most of my life trying to please others. I don’t think I can do that anymore.”

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69. “Addicted to the small comfort I felt when I centered myself and concentrated on creating something beautiful.”

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70. “Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up.”

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71. “I could have walked out at any time. I’m the one who turned a bind eye. I’m the one who chose to die a little with every one of his affairs, so no, bottom line: I choose not to hate him, If I have any anger, its directed at myself. I don’t know why I waited so long to take care of myself emotionally and spiritually.”

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72. “December 16 Meet the Man Who Turns Down Cookies What man in his right mind turns down warm-from-the-oven chocolate-chip cookies? Ebenezer does.”

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73. “Love means more to me than being sexually compatible. It means being an important part of your life as you’ll be in mine. It means encouraging you to be everything you’ve ever wanted to be, sharing in your triumphs and comforting you in your failures. It means giving you the courage to try again. That’s what love is all about.”

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74. “A good friendship – like this one with Hallie – endured. It sustained you during times of crisis. It was there for you during the good times and the bad.”

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75. “I feel as if I’m on an emotional roller coaster. One moment I’m feeling as low as I can get, and the next I’m soaring into the clouds. Just now, I’m in the cloud phase.”

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76. “My father used to say that someone who used foul language was someone who needed to study vocabulary because there were more civilized ways to get one’s point across.”

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77. “Oftentimes when God works, what happens makes no sense. It will all come together down the road. Trust me on this.”

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78. “Remember the time Pamela stuffed a bead up her nose and we had to take her to the emergency room to get it out? That bead cost us a fortune.”

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79. “He’s a man, after all. They want to know what they believe they need to know, which is minimal because they are raw, uncivilized, unrefined animals. They talk endlessly about themselves and puff up their chests. Give him the basics, off he goes.”

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80. “Humans, as attractive and awesomely created as they are, tend to believe that events occur in their lives randomly, with little or no meaning. They often overlook the obvious, that God is in control.”

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81. “It was the kind of kiss that had the power to melt the panties right off a girl.”

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82. “Monica was deeply religious and had yet to distinguish the differences between faith and religion.”

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83. “It was time to face those fears head-on and quit flirting with thoughts of failure.”

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84. “I’d found love – only to discover how fleeting it can be.”

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85. “Trying to discern what was different about them, she decided it was a new sense of life. They seemed to shimmer with it.”

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86. “Dreams remain only wisps of enjoyable but useless imagination if we don’t give them an anchor to hold to. If we don’t make them determined goals. Faith in God is that anchor. It’s what enables that dream to come off the shelf and sit right down in front of us.”

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87. “Pride is important to a man, but it isn’t everything. When it comes to the right woman, a man needs to be willing to swallow his ego every now and then.”

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88. “I was looking forward to my visit to the library. I’ve always been a big reader and thought I might eventually volunteer as a Friend of the Library.”

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89. “I’d come to appreciate the sounds of silence. I’d grown accustomed to the stillness of Ponder, where one could hear the snow being blown off the tree limbs by the wind, the distant cry of a caribou, and the crackle of the Northern Lights.”

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90. “Just being in his arms was like heaven; it felt like I was coming home.”

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91. “I don’t think you need to worry about me marrying Jack,” she assured him. He parked at the curb and cut the engine and then said the oddest thing. “Good.” Good? He didn’t want her to remarry? What a strange reaction, considering that he’d been married to Marge for fourteen years.”

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92. “I feel claustrophobic. I need more than a couple of hours’ light a day. I’m sick and tired of watching the sun set two hours after dawn. I need more light than this.”

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93. “As if this was more than she could imagine, Amiee asked, “What about a stove with more than two burners and an oven that actually works?” “All yours,” Steve assured her.”

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94. “Love doesn’t die.”

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95. “It started to snow – light flakes that drifted down from the heavens like small feathers released from angel pillows.”

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96. “God created us to dream. When we fail to dream, we rob Him of the opportunity to do great things. Sometimes we shy away from dreaming big dreams. Maybe we don’t want to ask for too much. Maybe we somehow don’t feel worthy. But over and over again in the Bible, the Lord instructs us to envision what He can do. Our job is to dream.”

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97. “Vero Beach,” she said. “That’s where Ruth’s class reunion is taking place.”

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98. “Harry was on a God-given mission – a trial mission that was the opportunity of an eternity and one he hoped would become a permanent job if he performed well.”

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99. “Beth’s father waited until he had everyone’s attention and then instructed them to join hands. He bowed his head. Sam did as well, although he had no idea what had concerned both of the women in the other man’s life. “Good friends,” Phillip said, “good meat. Good God, let’s eat.”

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100. “Addie had always considered the holidays an extra-special time of year. Magic hung in the air, and people were gentler, kinder to one another. Differences were set aside, friendships deepened, and people in general were more charitable and happier.”

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