Top 180 Debbie Macomber Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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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102. “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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103. “When your entire world is unraveling, you tend to crave order, and I found it in knitting. In fact, I’ve even read that knitting can lower stress more effectively than meditation.”

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104. “Readers have actually changed the way I’ve done things, changed the course of my career even, about four or five times. Just from reader feedback.”

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105. “Emotions can become habits – she said haltingly as she wiped her eyes. But habits can be changed”.”

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106. “Women can’t tell east from west, so you use these ridiculous ways of getting from one place to another.” “Ridiculous means? What exactly are you talking about?” “If you must know, a woman gives instructions to take a right at the beauty parlor on Main Street, and a man will tell you to head east.” “It’s the same thing, isn’t it?” “No, it isn’t,” Kyle argued. “Men don’t notice things like beauty parlors or red mailboxes.”

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107. “If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can’t, you’re right.”

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108. “Christmas is a condition of the heart.”

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109. “If you must know, Carol, Barbara and I had a pity party.” “A what? You’re kidding, right?” He didn’t bother to hide his mocking grin. “Never mind.”

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110. “We don’t have a pedigree, but we have big hearts, determination, and guts. The Carney family is grounded and there’s a lot of love.”

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111. “Forgiveness is hard, and most people tend to hold on to their hurts, to take some kind of perverse satisfaction in them.”

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112. “John F. Kennedy is reported to have said that we can forgive our enemies but we shouldn’t forget their names.”

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113. “I want to practice gratitude. I know that sounds hokey, but instead of concentrating on the negative, I want to look at the positive side of life.”

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114. “Kindness is something that should always be passed on.”

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115. “I wondered if he thought of me or if he’d put me out of his heart as effectively as he’d put me out of his life.”

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116. “I’ve always loved catching snow on my eyelashes.”

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117. “When Addie had signed up for this course she’d been determined to do whatever it took to get through with a passing grade. She hadn’t expected to enjoy it or even learn from it. Yet the novel they were studying was filled with life lessons that seemed to apply directly to her.”

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118. “The white-and-green ferry gliding across the dark waters of Puget Sounds looked like a beacon steering toward Bremerton. The entire Seattle waterfront was lit up a festive holiday scene.”

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119. “I’m referring to feelings! Women aren’t afraid to face their feelings. Men are so terrified of emotion they hold it inside until they’re totally bent out of shape.”

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120. “With God’s help she could forge a path where there hadn’t been one before. With God’s help she would make a way where there was none.”

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121. “Ibrahim’s eyes darkened with an emotion Mark was unable to read. “I won’t leave you; no, my friend, it is not possible.” “Go,” Mark whispered again from between his parched lips. “Get your family to safety. I’m too weak.” “You will make it,” Ibrahim insisted. “I give you my strength. Shatha gives you her strength, too. We go as one. What is it you Americans say? No man left behind. I more American now than Iraqi. I not leave you behind. What you say – no way? I say no way I leave you.” Mark.”

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122. “With the long hours of daylight in the Alaska summers, the gardens served up a cornucopia of amazing and extra-large produce.”

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123. “Everyone made stupid mistakes, no matter what their age. The key was growing from the experience, becoming wiser and smarter.”

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124. “Men have a hard time just dealing with a simple cold. If God had left procreation up to the male of the species, humanity would’ve died out with Adam.”

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125. “Love based on shared experiences and friendship is what helps relationships last.”

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126. “A woman who would make his dreams hers and allow him to be part of hers. One who was kind and gentle. Loving and tender. Sensible.”

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127. “The challenge is to learn from those mistakes so we don’t repeat them.”

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128. “I suppose there will be the time when I’ll need to consider moving into one of those assisted-living complexes. At my age it’s difficult to make significant changes, but then that’s life.”

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129. “The first,” Elise repeated, and for reasons she could only guess at, being first gave her a sense of pleasure. She decided to buy those flowers for Aurora, after all.”

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130. “When you put beads in your knitting, you are really putting bits of light in your knitting. The gleam and color-play of beads add a whole other dimension that could be demure or outrageous, as you please. Your choice of beads and yarn uniquely expresses your personality. – Sivia Harding, designer and teacher.”

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131. “To his credit, Cain had resisted as best he could, but it was as if she were the sun, spreading her glow and warmth over him. Without him ever meaning for it to happen, he found himself caught up in the centrifugal force that was Julia. He’d been swept up by the happiness he felt when he was with her, the feeling of belonging, which was something he hadn’t felt in a good long while. It was like an elixir he was fast coming to crave.”

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132. “Men seemed to assume that because they could change their own oil and hook up a TV by themselves, they were naturally superior to women.”

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133. “I could break into sobs at the drop of a pin,” she admitted, and tried to laugh it off, but the only sound that came out was reminiscent of something one might hear on the Syfy channel.”

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134. “Then, in the tranquility of church on Christmas Eve, everything had come into perspective for Cait. There had been crowds and rudeness that first Christmas, too, she reasoned. Yet in the midst of that confusion had come joy and peace and love.”

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135. “Watching a complex stitch pattern grow as I knit silences the voice in my head that tells me to sweep the floor. I imagine dust bunnies are knitting themselves together under my chair.”

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136. “The mushrooms were grown in the shadow of the Washington rainforest, hand-picked by altar boys.”

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137. “Marriage is one of the most important decisions in anyone’s life, so it should be deeply felt decision. It should feel inevitable. It’s the union of two lives, after all. So you can’t simply check your watch and announce ’it’s time.”

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138. “I’m late,” she told him.”

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139. “Hold that for me.”

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140. “Not knowing what else to try, she got out her heavy cast-iron skillet and banged it against the top of the rad in hopes of reviving the ageing pipes. The noise was deafening, vibrating through the room like a jet aircraft crashing through the sound barrier.”

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141. “I wish I knew what it is you do to me.” She sensed that it troubled him that she could break through that facade of his. She was beginning to understand this man. She was physically handicapped, but Nash was crippled, too. He didn’t want love, but he couldn’t keep himself from needing it, from caring about her, and that worried him. It worried her, too.”

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142. “They hadn’t been married long and she hated to disillusion him so soon. Once he met the family, he might well have serious doubts about her, and the truth was, she wouldn’t blame him.”

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143. “Like anything else, friendship was an investment in time.”

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144. “Women are more sensitive than men.”

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145. “Many people have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. HELEN KELLER.”

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146. “Live. Do whatever possible to stay alive. I’ll be waiting. Praying, faithful. Just live. – Jo Marie Rose, Silver Linings.”

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147. “You don’t have to know how to sing. It’s feeling as though you want to that makes the day worthwhile.” – Coleman Cox.”

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148. “We were very different people outwardly but we shared the same core values and beliefs.”

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149. “God takes each one of us exactly where we are and so do I. Instead of focusing on the past, I prefer to look at the potential God has given each of us.”

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150. “What the people around me failed to understand was that my life as I’d known it, as I’d wanted it, as I’d dreamed it, was over. The only way I could achieve fulfillment was to find myself a new one.”

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