Top 35 Melissa Tagg Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “God rarely asks us to do what is easy. He calls us to hard things. To love when we don’t feel like loving. To serve when we don’t feel like serving. But in the hard things, He never leaves our side. Emmanuel. God with us.”

— Melissa Tagg

2. “But I don’t want to spend my life letting my pain be the lens through which I see the world.”

— Melissa Tagg

3. “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

4. “Sometimes God whispers. Sometimes he shouts. He doesn’t always communicate the same way twice, and frankly, sometimes we’re going to get it wrong. But part of faith is embracing the mystery – all the while knowing that even when we’re confused, God is faithful. He’s trustworthy.”

— Melissa Tagg

5. “When you really let people see you, Amelia–all of you, not just the snow-obsessed reporter–it’s impossible to look away.”

— Melissa Tagg

6. “Kindness is its own shade of heroism. And whatever else you are, Marshall, you are that – kind. And I’m grateful.”

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7. “An inhale caught in her throat at the sight awaiting her – the tops of autumn-brushed trees like a quilt of fall colors, giving way to sand and grass and water-edged rock. And then, the sea – turbulent and yet somehow tranquil, waves of cobalt and azure, frothy white at the edges. “If I lived in this house, I’d clean out this attic and turn it into a bedroom so I could wake up to this view every day.”

— Melissa Tagg

8. “Ah, arguing with Ava Kingsley. Just like old times.” Only back in college they’d argued in print – weekly.”

— Melissa Tagg

9. “Far be it for me to speak for the Almighty, but I feel fairly confident saying God isn’t looking for impressive people. He’s looking for people who are willing to be impressed by Him.”

— Melissa Tagg

10. “Emotions mean you’re alive. They mean you have a heart that’s working.”

— Melissa Tagg

11. “It was as if God had answered a prayer she’d never been bold enough to pray.”

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12. “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

13. “Guess that’s one of the keys in life. Knowing when to hold on, when to let go.”

— Melissa Tagg

14. “Sometimes a feeling is just a feeling. Other times, it’s truth wrapped in undeniable knowing.”

— Melissa Tagg

15. “You can’t let the thought of what other people expect be your compass, Ava.”

— Melissa Tagg

16. “He’s like a little kid finally getting to play with his pen pal in person.”

— Melissa Tagg

17. “Letting fear make her decisions didn’t guarantee that she’d never be hurt or never make mistakes again. It just guaranteed that she’d be forced to live a life of a totally different kind of regret.”

— Melissa Tagg

18. “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

19. “Sometimes believing is a matter of deciding. Deciding who you’re going to trust and what you know about who you trust.”

— Melissa Tagg

20. “God hadn’t healed her pain. What if He never did? What if He just refused to fix her?”

— Melissa Tagg

21. “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

22. “Amazing how he’d found a way to topple the wall around her heart. Not in a crazy dynamite-like explosion or with the force of a wrecking ball, but in a slow brick-by-brick dismantling.”

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23. “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

24. “But when I was in my deepest pain, God came for me He didn’t leave me in an injured pile on the sidewalk nor did he stand around waiting for me to get up and move, He came running for me.”

— Melissa Tagg

25. “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

26. “She likes you so much it makes her not like you.”

— Melissa Tagg

27. “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

28. “But I don’t know if Seth was actually serious.” “Ask him in one of your bazillion emails. Sheesh.”

— Melissa Tagg

29. “Sometimes we have to let history rest to make way for what’s coming next.”

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30. “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.”

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31. “It was a whisper. A prodding. A conviction. In another life, in hi sold one where he was still a man of deep faith, he might’ve believed that was a divine murmur. God’s voice. Saying his name. Letting him know someone saw and heard and cared.”

— Melissa Tagg

32. “How was a man supposed to choose anything at all when all he wanted was to feel nothing?”

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33. “He could lose himself in the copper warmth of her eyes. Except, no, this wasn’t losing himself. This was finding something precious.”

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34. “If you can’t right now, then you let everyone who loves you believe for you.”

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35. “It was as if she knew the very words his soul needed to hear.”

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36. “I’m the cook, Seth. I could take a stove apart and put it back together, but dishwashers aren’t my thing.”

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37. “If you’re going to dream, Kate, commit to it. Don’t just talk about it.”

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38. “But, slowly, she was learning how to live in the tension between heartache and hope. How to trust the heart of God who stayed even when her own heart drifted, knowing He’d always find a way to draw her back.”

— Melissa Tagg

39. “Some loves take months or years to blossom. But some blow in like a storm over the sea, so fast and furious and wonderful it about bowls you over.”

— Melissa Tagg