Top 120 Roseanna M. White Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “We’re all good. We’re all bad. The hero in our own stories. The villain in someone else’s.”

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2. “Evil men flourish. The righteous suffer. The Lord never promises we won’t – only that He’ll sustain us when the tribulation comes.”

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3. “You will see. There are boundaries – there always are. But you can find your place within them. Learn how to live within a fence but let your spirit soar.”

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4. “She was worth waiting for. Worth seeking hour by hour, day by day, month by month. Year by year. Even if it took him a decade to convince her to be his, it would be worth it.”

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5. “And the best sort of villain is smart and subtle and so very tricky that you don’t even know he’s the villain, because he thinks himself the hero in his own story.”

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6. “You’ll either be a villain or a hero, Phil. Try to pick the right one, will you?”

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7. “Part of the art of asking a good question is knowing what not to ask, you know.”

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8. “Whatever He asks of us, whether it be a fortune or a pittance or our time or our devotion, we can be sure it will be painful. Cutting out what stands between us and God always is. But we can also trust that in the giving, we’ll gain something far more precious.”

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9. “What do you think heroism is but doing what needs to be done when the situation tries to prevent it?”

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10. “Strawberries.” Willa slid those eyes shut now and loosed a blissful sigh. “If there are more tomorrow, save me one. I saw some in the village, but they were too dear.”

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11. “He needed to help. Someone, somehow. He needed to prove, if only in some small way, that he was worthwhile.”

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12. “Never in his life had he met anyone quite like Margot De Wilde.”

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13. “None of us can change anyone else – not unless they want to do it themselves. ” But the Lord could.”

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14. “Words weren’t her language.”

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15. “Sometimes the Lord answered prayers at an alarming rate.”

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16. “Arabelle Denler was... all sorts of impossible things. Too generous. Too good. Too innocent. She made him infinitely aware of all he lacked.”

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17. “He apparently preferred dark eyes to ready smiles. Sarcasm to sweetness. Codebreakers to secretaries.”

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18. “He does always say that sound planning is the backbone of spontaneity.”

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19. “Strike some terror into him, Phillip. It would do him some good.”

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20. “Our faith is the rock we stand on, Willa – but we don’t demand anyone else stand here with us. Though if ever you wanted to, there is plenty of room.”

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21. “She gave so freely. Out of her plenty, yes – but not just that. She gave of her heart, of her soul. She gave in her loneliness and she gave in her friendships and she gave in her hurt and her pain.”

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22. “It shouldn’t be fire. How could it be, when Peter was all cool reactions and self-control? He’d never sent her a smoldering look. Never flirted, not until just that moment. He’d never been anything but a friend. A gentleman, in the real sense. The true sense.”

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23. “No more hidden pieces, buried in the sand. They need to be seen. How can we ever be understood, be truly loved, if we don’t show all our most important pieces?”

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24. “Sometimes God let people die. Let His children break. And then pieced them back together into something new. Something that He could use for His glory instead of theirs.”

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25. “Because it’s by naming a thing, knowing a thing, that you come to understand it. Only when you see its unique traits can you truly appreciate what it is, and what it isn’t.”

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26. “Love always has a place.”

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27. “We cannot defeat circumstances with circumstances. When an unforeseen event has crushed us, another cannot make it better.”

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28. “Live the legacy, my friend. Walk worthy of His calling. Go forth boldly-and live.”

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29. “It was dark. With her eyes closed and the crying surrounding her and with this gaping hole inside. It was so dark. It had always been dark, but she’d never known it fully. Because she’d never seen that light shining just out of reach. Now she did. She saw it. It was partly Peter, with all his goodness. His nobility and his quiet strength and his silly quirks and his utter niceness. It was partly Peter, shining there. But it was mostly what shone through him.”

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30. “He’s still there, unchanged, even when we can’t feel Him. When the grief’s too loud to let us hear His voice.”

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31. “Emerson leaned toward Lark and spoke in a stage whisper. “He is warming up to me.” She laughed. “How can you tell?” “He used to ignore my presence altogether, then insult me the moment I left. Now look at him – he cares enough to insult me to my face.”

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32. “Each thought a bejeweled raindrop. Hardly, just now. More like a rain puddle, cloudy and grey.”

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33. “Daylight fading, night oozing in, stripping it of green and pink and orange and leaving muted grey behind.”

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34. “Coffee, if not strong enough to wake a man from a coma, is not truly coffee.”

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35. “Sometimes, the path of trust and faith means making the best decision we can, stepping out, and trusting that God will take it and use it – continuing in the things we know are good and right. But also knowing that those things about which we doubt are often the ones God uses in the most profound way.”

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36. “Poison gas destroys only a man’s body. But Propaganda, Lily... it tells them a story, invites them to believe in something it cannot back up. It lures our men into supposedly glorious battle and then crushes their spirits – their very faith in God and country – when it instead delivers an inglorious hell on earth.”

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37. “The world may still look dark, but if photography had taught her anything, it was that there was always more light to be found. Sometimes you just needed to change your lens. And sometimes you need a flash. Neither ever changed what was really there... but it showed it in a new way.”

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38. “My sweet Libby. You’re not alone. You’re never alone.”

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39. “That’s something every islander knows – there’s always going to be another hurricane. Another storm. Everything buried will surface again, and everything you thought would last forever will come down eventually. But you rebuild. You dredge. You keep moving, keep adding new. That’s how we go on living.”

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40. “Dastardly. I prefer dastardly. And I’m fresh out of henchmen. Unless one counts Ainsley. Which one really can’t do, you know. He absolutely refuses to bench.”

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41. “She was one small grain of sand squaring off against a hurricane. But each grain of sand played its part.”

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42. “What is the point of language if we don’t use it with precision.”

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43. “People were never just what they did, or just where they found themselves. People were never just their sins.”

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44. “Wherever you are today, right now, be there fully. Be with the people God has put in your path. Look every moment of every day for how you can let Him use you to touch another heart. We none of us ever know what day will be our last. But we can make certain every day is worthy of being so.”

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45. “Your true beauty is in your heart, and it will be eternal so long as you entrust that heart fully to the God who grants us peace in our days and holds eternity in His hand.”

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46. “He’d stolen her heart right out of her chest when she wasn’t looking, and she hadn’t the foggiest idea how to get it back. And didn’t want to. He’d take better care of it than she ever could anyway.”

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47. “That’s the best way, I think, to handle what life throws at us. Grab hold of it. Make whatever we can with whatever pieces we have.”

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48. “This war was destroying her entire generation. Those it hadn’t wiped out entirely it was trying to take apart piece by piece. And what could she do? Try to stitch the physical gashes back together, but that was only a stopgap.”

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49. “She had a feeling he was like a matryoshka doll too – a placid exterior that hid layers of secrets and mysteries. And she couldn’t help but wonder what lay beneath this carefully crafted shell.”

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50. “But Batya used to say that the difference between a wise man and a fool was not that the wise man was right and the fool was wrong – but that the fool always assumed himself right, and the wise man would wonder if he could be wrong. We cannot learn from our mistakes and grow wiser if we never admit to the times we’ve chosen the wrong path.”

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