Authentically Izzy Quotes

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.

The place where they lived within my heart is still being held for them, like a bookmark of sorts - waiting to see them again.

Life is too precious to hesitate when God offers the opportunity for something even better than what we imagine.

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.

However, I want to be clear from the outset that I’m coming with the sole purpose of meeting you.

I don’t know if you can genetically acquire a love for books, but if so, I was doubly impacted.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.