Melody Carlson Quotes

• I have become convinced that God thoroughly enjoys fixing and saving things that are broken. That means that no matter how hurt and defeated you feel, no matter how badly you have been damaged, God can repair you. God can give anyone a second chance.

  Melody Carlson

  Hurt, Mean, Second Chance

  Melody Carlson (2014). “Damaged: A Violated Trust”, p.99, Tyndale House

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• I welcome each new day with a hopeful expectancy that I, too, will rise above the ordinary. For I am not content to live a merely 'normal' life or settle for an average existence. No, I am destined for more - much, much more.

  Melody Carlson

  Average, New Day, Hopeful

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• It's amazing the things you realize
  when you lose someone:
  you get mad at yourself for not
  saying the things you could've a million times,
  you take for granted the days
  spent doing nothing when
  you could have been with them.
  Anyone can be taken,
  at any time in our lives,
  but we always wait until they're gone to say
  the things we never had the courage to before.

  Melody Carlson

  Taken, Mad, Waiting

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• God planned for our lives to connect. Let's make sure we keep it that way.

  Melody Carlson

  Way, Our Lives

  Melody Carlson (2000). “Sisters at Heart”, Thomas Nelson

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• A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

  Melody Carlson

  Book, Swimming, Rivers

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• Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each other's backs. It's seriously twisted.

  Melody Carlson

  Girl, Jealous, Guy

  Melody Carlson (2012). “The Jerk Magnet”, p.134, Revell

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• I mean all this focus on how we look on the outside. It's just all wrong

  Melody Carlson

  Mean, Focus, Looks

  Melody Carlson (2014). “Faded Denim: Color Me Trapped”, p.52, Tyndale House

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• Mostly I think I've learned to trust God more. I mean, if I start getting worried or freaked, I just try to put it in God's hands. Sometimes I imagine God cradling the globe in his hands, and I tell myself that as long as I'm with God, the Creator of the universe, I can be comfortable and at home anyplace on the planet.

  Melody Carlson

  Home, Mean, Thinking

  Melody Carlson (2009). “Notes from a Spinning Planet--Mexico”, p.225, WaterBrook

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• It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.

  Melody Carlson

  Girl, Teenage, Habit

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• Being a teenager these days is not for the faint of heart.

  Melody Carlson

  Teenager, Heart, These Days

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• But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win.

  Melody Carlson

  Running, Fear, Winning

  Melody Carlson (2009). “Finding Alice”, p.14, WaterBrook

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• To the casual observer it looks like I have moved on since I go around wearing my little happy mask all day. I smile and laugh and carry on like my heart's still in one piece, but beneath it all, I am dying.

  Melody Carlson

  Heart, Laughing, Dying

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• I grew up in a difficult environment, but I became a Christian as a teen. My mom and my sister soon became Christians also.

  Melody Carlson

  Christian, Mom, Environment

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• Shut off the internal bashing.

  Melody Carlson

  Girl, Teenage, Teenage Girl

  Melody Carlson (2014). “Blade Silver: Color Me Scarred”, p.76, Tyndale House

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• It seems totally unfair that the way we look matters so much. I mean, why can't we just get over this gotta-be-thin-and-beautiful thing? Why can't we just accept ourselves and others for what we are?

  Melody Carlson

  Beautiful, Mean, Looks

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