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It took being forced into unwanted matchmaking for me to discover who I was, what I wanted, and my own perfect match. Isn’t that what we all want down deep? To be seen for who we are, even with all our flaws, and be loved anyway. Completely.
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Pepper Basham (Authentically, Izzy: A fun, low-spice, bookish rom-com told through emails, texts, and letters)
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The place where they lived within my heart is still being held for them, like a bookmark of sorts - waiting to see them again.
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Pepper Basham (Authentically, Izzy (Skymar, #1))
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Life is too precious to hesitate when God offers the opportunity for something even better than what we imagine.
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Pepper Basham (Authentically, Izzy: A fun, low-spice, bookish rom-com told through emails, texts, and letters)
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Why are we always so surprised when God gives us something we’ve been praying for? It’s like we don’t believe He’s actually listening.
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Pepper Basham (Authentically, Izzy: A fun, low-spice, bookish rom-com told through emails, texts, and letters)
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I don’t know if you can genetically acquire a love for books, but if so, I was doubly impacted.
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Pepper Basham (Authentically, Izzy: A fun, low-spice, bookish rom-com told through emails, texts, and letters)
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Someday a man will see behind your veil of introversion and catch a glimpse. Then he’ll stop at nothing to show you how he sees you—and you won’t be able to go back to anything less.
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Pepper Basham (Authentically, Izzy: A fun, low-spice, bookish rom-com told through emails, texts, and letters)
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It’s about taking what you have within you, what God-given gifts you already possess, and falling in love with them. Making them work for your future. Uniquely. That’s how you make your life worth living, for yourself and others.
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Pepper Basham (Authentically, Izzy: A fun, low-spice, bookish rom-com told through emails, texts, and letters)
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However, I want to be clear from the outset that I’m coming with the sole purpose of meeting you.
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Pepper Basham (Authentically, Izzy: A fun, low-spice, bookish rom-com told through emails, texts, and letters)
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When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.
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Pepper Basham (Authentically, Izzy: A fun, low-spice, bookish rom-com told through emails, texts, and letters)
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It may sound weird, but now I know that love looks a whole lot like hours of comfortable silence on the couch together, or snort-laughing over inside jokes, or gentle words and tender compliments that warm the heart more than speed up the pulse (though those are nice too).
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Pepper Basham (Authentically, Izzy: A fun, low-spice, bookish rom-com told through emails, texts, and letters)
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I learn and grow from what I read. I see in myself the pride of Lizzie Bennet, the misperceptions of Anne Shirley, the arrogance of Dorian Gray . . . and seek grace to become a better person without the same heartaches.
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Pepper Basham (Authentically, Izzy: A fun, low-spice, bookish rom-com told through emails, texts, and letters)
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... I've always found a lot of truth in romantic fiction. What's wrong with expecting a man to treat a woman well? To share excellent conversations? To have similar like - even unusual ones? To experience mutual respect and humor? What do these kinds of things seem more frequent in popular novels and Hallmark movies than in real life? Is it wrong to wait for a relationship like that?"
Authentically, Izzy
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Pepper D. Basham
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... I've always found a lot of truth in romantic fiction. What's wrong with expecting a man to treat a woman well? To share excellent conversations? To have similar likes - even unusual ones? To experience mutual respect and humor? Why do these kinds of things seem more frequent in popular novels and Hallmark movies than in real life? Is it wrong to wait for a relationship like that?
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Pepper Basham, Authentically Izzy