Francine Quotes

Who can find a virtuous and capable wife? She is worth more than precious rubies. She will not hinder him but help him all her life. PROVERBS 31:10, 12 ~ Francine Rivers

The documents were in English - sort of - but the language was so convoluted that it was beginning to give her a headache. It made for even duller reading than her chemistry text. ~ Francine Pascal

When Ben arrived, he was having a bad hair day. He looked like Francine from those Arthur cartoons on PBS, and yet I was still very attracted to him. ~ Courtney Robertson

The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave. ~ Francine Pascal

It will all work out as it should. ~ Francine Rivers

You don't need papers to vote ... ~ Francine Busby

Look," cried Buster. "Arthur just went into the witch's house!"
"She'll probably put Arthur and D.W. into her oven, just like Hansel and Gretel," said Sue Ellen.
"Maybe she's using them for weird scientific experiments," said the Brain.
"I bet she locked them in the cellar to starve," said Buster.
"Maybe we should follow him," said Francine.
"Maybe we should call the police," said Muffy.
Everyone was too scared to move. ~ Marc Brown

Stand firm in the Lord, Hadassah. Stand firm and let him fight your battles. Do not try to fight alone. ~ Francine Rivers

Generally speaking, our stuff can be divided into three categories: useful stuff, beautiful stuff, and emotional stuff. ~ Francine Jay

the boys in line." Hildemara didn't receive a reward for ~ Francine Rivers

He needed the warmth of the sun to take away the chill of foreboding that grew in him. ~ Francine Rivers

I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl. ~ Francine Pascal

Jessica stopped a few feet away so that Ken could get an optimal view of her body posed against the seductive backdrop of the sea, sand, and palm trees. ~ Francine Pascal

In Him we live and breathe. In Him we will one day find one another again. In Him we are one. In this life we will not love perfectly. In the next, God promises we will. I hold to that hope. I cling to that dream. ~ Francine Rivers

Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind let each of you regard one another as more important than himself. PHILIPPIANS 2 : 3 ~ Francine Rivers

It doesn't take two minutes on an examining table for a girl to know that abortion is painful and destructive and it'll have far-reaching effects on her life. Besides the emotional trauma of going through something so violent, there are the physical aspects, the aftereffects. Unfortunately, by the time she's gone that far, it's too late to change her mind. ~ Francine Rivers

Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone. ~ Francine Rivers

Nothing brings people closer together than shared suffering ~ Francine Rivers

Perhaps Aquinas's notably soft line on gluttony may have had something to do with the fact that the saint was said to have had what today we might call a weight problem. ~ Francine Prose

Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded. ~ Francine Mathews

So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words and expressions they employ - than to what they mean. This notion of dialogue as a pure expression of character that ... transcends the specifics of time and place may be partly why the conversations in the works of writers such as Austen and Bronte often sound fresh and astonishingly contemporary ... ~ Francine Prose

The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious. ~ Francine Prose

Introduction to Kate. - Satisfied she had concluded her notes on the manuscript she had been reading, Kate placed her heel back in its shoe and stood up. She smoothed her skirt and paused to spare a thought for Vincent.
"What is going to happen next?" Kate remembered him pleading.
Claire had said this would happen. ~ Francine Scott

Grief is deeper when the sun goes down and memories rise up with the moon and stars. ~ Francine Rivers

Let me digress a moment to talk about beginnings. How much simpler life would be if we were wise enough to stop at the first blush of romance, the start of a business transaction or a casual friendship. If we knew enough to pause and think: this is as good as it gets. Everything will go downhill from this moment on. So once again our instincts are the opposite of what they should be, propelling us forward exactly when they should be holding us back. ~ Francine Prose

Jessica walked away from Aaron and Ken, flashing them both a big smile. They were both very attractive – she had dated each of them a number of times. In fact, not too long ago she had contemplated falling in love with Ken for lack of anything better to do. ~ Francine Pascal

Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel. ~ Francine Pascal

We must seize every opportunity we can to speak the truth and proclaim peace. Especially now. There's so little time for many. ~ Francine Rivers

It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all and showing us over and over again the birth, life, death, and resurrection of his only begotten Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. It was like a best-loved story being told day after day with each sunrise and sunset, year after year with the seasons, down through the ages since time began. ~ Francine Rivers

Matter what your father plans, nor what his motives might be. God will prevail. God will use everything to His good purpose if you love and trust Him. ~ Francine Rivers

None of them, not even he, seemed to realize they weren't just physical beings, that God had left a mark upon them by the simple fact of his creation. They preferred their idols, tangible, possessing, capricious characteristics like themselves, easily understood. They wanted something they could manipulate. God was inconceivable, intangible, incomprehensible, unexploitable. ~ Francine Rivers

We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck out against him. In anger. In disappointment. Yet, it is God's will that prevails. ~ Francine Rivers

A lot of the stuff that's happening now, I can trace back to 'Death of a Salesman.' Francine Maisler, the casting director, saw 'Death of a Salesman' and called me in for 'Unbroken.' The casting director of 'Normal Heart' had seen 'Salesman' too. I look back on it now, and it's like one thing led to another; it was a chain reaction. ~ Finn Wittrock

the floor was expensive cream-colored travertine ~ Francine Rivers

Death began to look like a friend. ~ Francine Rivers

Literature not only breaks the rules, but makes us realize that there are none. ~ Francine Prose

Silence did not always mean indifference ~ Francine Rivers

We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross. ~ Francine Rivers

You will do yourself a disservice if you confine your reading to the rising star whose six-figure, two-book contract might seem to indicate where your own work should be heading. I'm not saying you shouldn't read such writers, some of whom are excellent and deserving of celebrity. I'm only pointing out that they represent the dot at the end of the long, glorious, complex sentence in which literature has been written. ~ Francine Prose

suffering brought endurance in order that one might be strengthened for whatever lay ahead. ~ Francine Rivers

feuding and revenge were ingrained in their lives. "I ~ Francine Rivers

Roger Collins wasn't the most popular teacher at school only because he was interesting in class. In fact, most of the girls would have loved a little after-class attention from this teacher. ~ Francine Pascal

Minutes after the shootings, everybody's cell phone rang. ~ Francine Prose

I learned a long time ago we've control of little in this world, Amanda. It doesn't belong to us. It's out of our hands. Like being born or being sold into prostitution at eight. All we can change is the way we think and the way we live. ~ Francine Rivers

Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency? ~ Francine Rivers

The great greatest gift you can give him is the freedom to spread his wings. ~ Francine Rivers

We never believe we're beautiful, no matter how many times we hear it. We never believe it until someone says it in the right way. ~ Francine Prose

People see everything through the lens of their obsessions. ~ Francine Prose

No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything. ~ Francine Pascal

How many others suffered in silence, too ashamed and too afraid to speak about their pain? The world wouldn't let them grieve for children they had aborted. How could they when the rhetoric said there was no child? How does one grieve what doesn't exist? No one wanted to admit the truth. ~ Francine Rivers

Just because you don't believe in the Lord doesn't mean his power isn't working for you. ~ Francine Rivers

I work really long days and I work seven day weeks. ~ Francine Prose

Warning: This read will cause lack of sleep! You wont want to put it down!

July 13, 2016 by Francine Baia
This was a long awaited novel in the Sword of the God series and it was most definitely well worth the wait. The author provides an all encompassing look into the inner thoughts and machinations of each character which is commanding. She tackles several serious subjects that are current in today's society, including PTSD and how it affects people differently and the devastation it causes on family. Several love stories are explored which keeps the readers on edge and wanting more. The integration of languages and cultures are seamless and readily understandable which bolsters the depth of the multiple storylines and at times is masterfully interlaced with comic relief. This is truly an enjoyable read that you will find difficult to put down. Anxiously anticipating the next installment! ~ Anna Erishkigal

We're each single threads woven together in a tapestry God has created. Only he sees the full picture, but not even a sparrow falls without his knowing. ~ Francine Rivers

I think it's one of the reasons I wrote my book later in life. My parents didn't have these extreme alternations of conduct. They were very sweet to me. ~ Francine Du Plessix Gray

The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death. ~ Francine Du Plessix Gray

But if we hope for what we do not have, we wait for it patiently. ROMANS 8 : 25 ~ Francine Rivers

If we want to write, it makes sense to read - and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we would want to visit rose gardens and try to see them the way that a rose gardener would. ~ Francine Prose

Who would you rather live with, a bunch of bonobos feeling good? Or chimpanzees eating each other's babies? Or humans waterboarding each other and destroying the planet? ~ Francine Prose

I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia. ~ Francine Prose

Read your work aloud, if you can, if you aren't too embarrassed by the sound of your voice ringing out when you are alone in a room. Chances are that the sentence you can hardly pronounce without stumbling is a sentence that needs to be reworked to make it smoother and more fluent. A poet once told me that he was reading a draft of a new poem aloud to himself when a thief broke into his Manhattan loft. Instantly surmising that he had entered the dwelling of a madman, the thief turned and ran without taking anything, and without harming the poet. So it maybe that reading your work aloud will not only improve its quality but save your life in the process. ~ Francine Prose

All the way back, she had imagined him gloating and taunting, rubbing her face in her own broken pride. Instead, he knelt before her and washed her dirty, blistered feet. Throat burning, she looked down at his dark head and struggled with the feelings rising in her. She waited for them to die away, but they wouldn't. ~ Francine Rivers

In the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will direct your paths (Proverbs 3:5-6). We can choose to be self-sufficient or to rely on God. We can act on our own understanding regarding life's circumstances, or we can seek God's will in every situation. But only one choice assures us that God will direct our paths. ~ Francine Rivers

Tell me how on God's green earth we can dare offer salvation to a dying world when we're so busy shooting our own wounded. ~ Francine Rivers

All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. ~ Francine Prose

You see, Suzanne, history lectures bore me, art films bore me, your friends bore me, and, if you want to know the truth, I guess you bore me too. ~ Francine Pascal

How inappropriate,' Lila said coldly. 'Who'd ever dream of showing up at a dance in a wheelchair? What does she think she's going to do all night? ~ Francine Pascal

Reader, I married him.

It turned out the sounds I heard coming from the attic weren't the screams of Mr Rochester's mad wife Bertha. It wasn't the wife who burned to death in the fire that destroyed Thornfield Hall and blinded my future husband when he tried to save her.
After we'd first got engaged, he'd had to admit that he was already married, and we'd broken off our engagement. He'd asked me to run away with him anyway. Naturally, I'd refused.
But later, after we were properly married, he insisted that it hadn't happened that way. It turned out there had been no wife. It turned out that it had been a parrot, screaming in the attic. The parrot had belonged to his wife. She had got it in the islands, where she had also contracted the tropical fever that killed her. She'd died long before I came to work for him as a governess. That was never Bertha, in the attic. ~ Francine Prose

Only later during her prayers had it come to her how cunning Satan could be. Her love for Marcus could become a tool against her, for when her heart and mind were on Marcus, Julia lay forgotten.
Nothing must distract her from her mission here. And no one. ~ Francine Rivers

But the eyes of the Lord are watching over those who fear him, who rely upon his steady love. "He will keep them from death. . . ." Psalm 33:18 ~ Francine Rivers

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books. ~ Francine Prose

[It] began to seem amazing how often it was assumed that having a vagina automatically meant I was less intelligent, talented, capable, and interesting than the world's least interesting human being who happened to have a penis. ~ Francine Prose

I'm out of the equation, an innocent bystander at the major love affair Joan is having with Joan ~ Francine Prose

Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn, that he may heal us; he has stricken, and he will bind us up. HOSEA 6 : 1 ~ Francine Rivers

A cult!' Elizabeth gasped. 'Here? In Sweet Valley? But that's impossible! ~ Francine Pascal

We are not what we own; we are what we do, what we think and who we love. ~ Francine Jay

You've had more than your share of heartache, honey, but sometimes what looks like a gift is a gift. ~ Francine Rivers

Remember, your stuff is not a record of your life - you are. ~ Francine Jay

How can intemperate minds be free when they're slaves to their own passions? ~ Francine Rivers

Your home is living space, not storage space. ~ Francine Jay

Lovers, children, heroes, none of them do we fantasize as extravagantly as we fantasize our parents. ~ Francine Du Plessix Gray

Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation. ~ Francine Rivers

Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays ... plays in which I had the starring part. ~ Francine Pascal

Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure, or material profit, most liberated from any oath of duty or of constancy. With Eros the body stands naked, in friendship our spirit is denuded. ~ Francine Du Plessix Gray

Tell me everything about this woman you once knew. Tell me everything she ever told you about Jesus of Nazareth."
Marcus saw the fever in his eyes. "Why?" he said, frowning. "Why does it matter?"
"Just tell me, Marcus Lucianus Valerian. Tell me everything. From the beginning. Let me decide for myself what matters."
And so Marcus did as he was asked. He gave in to his deep need to speak of Hadassah. And all the while he talked of her, he failed to see the irony in what he was doing. For as he told the story of a simple Judean slave girl, Marcus Lucianus Valerian, a Roman who didn't believe in anything, proclaimed the gospel of Jesus Christ. ~ Francine Rivers

Love the Lord your God, and love one another. Love one another as He loves. Love with strength and purpose and passion and no matter what comes against you. Don't weaken. Stand against the darkness, and love. That's the way back into Eden. That's the way back to life. ~ Francine Rivers

So, Francine seems sweet." -Kade
"I wouldn't know, Mr. Grayson. I haven't tasted him yet. However, if I do get the pleasure of that, I will let you know how sweet it is." -Lainey ~ Christine Zolendz

The repetitions, meaningless expressions, stammers, and nonsensical monosyllables with which we express hesitation, along with the clichés and banalities that constitute so much of everyday conversation, cannot and should not be used when our characters are talking. Rather, they should speak more fluently than we do, with greater economy and certitude. ~ Francine Prose

It was another one of her father's curses:I'll make you into a freak and not let you tell anyone. ~ Francine Pascal

The veil had been wisp-thin between life and death. All his strength hadn't been enough to break free, but one soft word from Christ, and he was alive again. ~ Francine Rivers

It was as though her tongue were a heavy weight in her mouth, and now her heart was even heavier for having kept silent. ~ Francine Rivers

Everyone to whom she drew close left her. Sooner or later they walked away. ~ Francine Rivers

For some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty. ~ Francine Rivers

I dropped a word from the string of negative adjectives that had trailed behind me like tin cans behind the village idiot. Unappreciated, unloved, unmarried. But no longer unpublished. ~ Francine Prose

Paris is an insomniac's heaven. There is always something to photograph, something hidden in the shadows. One can see so much more in the darkness than in the light of day. ~ Francine Prose

The Holy Spirit comes to dwell within us when we believe in Christ and are redeemed. It is through the Spirit that God reveals mysteries to us, for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God. ~ Francine Rivers

Elizabeth walked past just as Mrs. Ferguson, pulling down her wide-brimmed hat, announced that teenagers today were the most inconsiderate creatures she had ever seen.
'I'm afraid I have to agree with you,' Elizabeth had heard her twin say mournfully, clearly distinguishing herself from the inconsiderate teenagers milling all around them. ~ Francine Pascal

God always answers, in His time, not in yours. You'll know what you're supposed to do when the time comes. ~ Francine Rivers

Love cleanses, beloved. It doesn't beat you down. It doesn't cast blame. ~ Francine Rivers

The problem: we put more value on our stuff than on our space ~ Francine Jay