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Dear Human: You've got it all wrong. You didn't come here to master unconditional love. This is where you came from and where you'll return. You came here to learn personal love. Universal love. Messy love. Sweaty Love. Crazy love. Broken love. Whole love. Infused with divinity. Lived through the grace of stumbling. Demonstrated through the beauty of... messing up. Often. You didn't come here to be perfect, you already are. You came here to be gorgeously human. Flawed and fabulous. And rising again into remembering. But unconditional love? Stop telling that story. Love in truth doesn't need any adjectives. It doesn't require modifiers. It doesn't require the condition of perfection. It only asks you to show up. And do your best. That you stay present and feel fully. That you shine and fly and laugh and cry and hurt and heal and fall and get back up and play and work and live and die as YOU. Its enough. It's Plenty.
Courtney A. Walsh
Maybe these simple, little, ordinary things are the big things I’m meant to accomplish with my life.
Courtney Walsh (The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley)
Some things are true, regardless of who you are. Saying something kind and from the heart is never a bad idea, and it’s never the wrong thing to do.
Courtney Walsh (My Phony Valentine (Holidays with Hart, #1))
You don't forgive people for their benefit. You do it for yours. Because if you don't, it'll eat you alive. Jealousy, envy, holding a grudge- they rot you from the inside out.
Courtney Walsh (The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley)
If I'm not willing to feel the pain of life, how can I ever expect to feel the joy
Courtney Walsh (The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley)
Happiness isn't that hard to find, you know. It's everywhere. It's all around us. But it's not something that happens to us. It's something we seek. It's something we pursue.
Courtney Walsh (The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley)
We all have our stuff. We all have holes, and we all have scars. And we all have things we’d rather keep hidden, because we think it’s easier not to burden someone else with our baggage.
Courtney Walsh (The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley)
Life is beautiful and horrible and wonderful and awful all at the same time
Courtney Walsh (The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley)
Do you know how much you’re missing in the moment by always wishing you were somewhere else?
Courtney Walsh (A Cross-Country Christmas (Road Trip Romance, #1))
Please, Lauren,” Will said. “You know you’re not the kind of girl you date.” “Ouch.” He leveled her gaze. “You’re the kind of girl you marry.
Courtney Walsh (A Cross-Country Christmas (Road Trip Romance, #1))
People don’t always let us become who we are. They try to keep us in the box of who we were.
Courtney Walsh (My Phony Valentine (Holidays with Hart, #1))
Maybe happiness isn’t about what you do, Isadora. Maybe it’s about who you do it with. Or simply about accepting who you are.
Courtney Walsh (The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley)
Fictional men are always better than the real ones. Always. Probably because they’re written by women.
Courtney Walsh (Can't Help Falling (Sweater Weather, #3))
Is it possible that the happy days and the sad days, I don’t know, need each other somehow? As if the two things have to coexist for either to matter at all?
Courtney Walsh (The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley)
You have to feel the pain in order to heal.
Courtney Walsh (My Lucky Charm (Holidays with Hart, #2))
Mom always says when you think something good about someone, you should say it out loud,
Courtney Walsh (My Lucky Charm (Holidays with Hart, #2))
People could not be trusted. They always let you down, and Will Sinclair had already proven that to her, hadn’t he?
Courtney Walsh (A Cross-Country Christmas (Road Trip Romance, #1))
Because times change. People change. ‘Life moves pretty fast. And if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Courtney Walsh (The Summer of Yes)
One thing was for sure: time didn’t heal all wounds. Some were still every bit as fresh as the day they were inflicted.
Courtney Walsh (Things Left Unsaid)
Lane closed her eyes and pressed her lips together at the sound of the nickname, a thousand memories whirling through her mind. He hadn’t meant it to hurt her, but even the smallest nick could reopen old wounds.
Courtney Walsh (Just Look Up (Harbor Pointe, #1))
Replacing the girl reading the book on the porch was this beautiful, closed-off, honest, waiting-to-be-cracked open woman who challenged his contentment simply by living her life. He didn’t want to be challenged. He was just fine with the status quo. Why did she have to go around inspiring him? It was not what he’d signed up for.
Courtney Walsh (A Cross-Country Christmas (Road Trip Romance, #1))
He stilled. He knew she was leaving—this wasn’t a surprise—but how did he tell her he didn’t want her to go? That he wanted to know all the things that made her sad, all the things that made her laugh? That he wanted to reach over and wipe those tears away?
Courtney Walsh (Just Look Up (Harbor Pointe, #1))
Life is beautiful and horrible and wonderful and awful all at the same time’?” He looks at me then. “And that is the adventure.
Courtney Walsh (The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley)
impossible for two attractive medical professionals to take a simple elevator ride that doesn’t end in a make-out session.
Courtney Walsh (The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley)
We’re strong, capable women, but we still like to be told we’re pretty.
Courtney Walsh (My Lucky Charm (Holidays with Hart, #2))
Yeah, I feel super sorry for you that you have to be locked in a car with a guy that looks like Chris Evans after the super soldier serum.
Courtney Walsh (A Cross-Country Christmas (Road Trip Romance, #1))
She supposed that’s what grace was—a second chance that isn’t deserved.
Courtney Walsh (A Cross-Country Christmas (Road Trip Romance, #1))
Time shrinks when it’s not paid attention to.
Courtney Walsh (A Cross-Country Christmas (Road Trip Romance, #1))
Nobody deserves forgiveness, Will. That’s the point. That’s what grace is.
Courtney Walsh (A Cross-Country Christmas (Road Trip Romance, #1))
Flirts flirt. Players play. Charmers charm. And girls like Lauren? They get their heart broken because they always seem to try and give it to the wrong people.
Courtney Walsh (A Cross-Country Christmas (Road Trip Romance, #1))
Because he is a recipe for disaster. A literal recipe. Two cups of charm, three ounces of inappropriate flirting, and a dash of dimples make for a very, very broken heart.
Courtney Walsh (A Cross-Country Christmas (Road Trip Romance, #1))
Taking it all in. Slowing down. Being present. Savoring this exact moment for exactly what it is.
Courtney Walsh (The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley)
seeing him there served as a well-placed reminder that life was short and people were what mattered most.
Courtney Walsh (Just Look Up)
It was, without question, one of the best days of her entire adult life. Because of him.
Courtney Walsh (A Cross-Country Christmas (Road Trip Romance, #1))
So it’s not what you thought it was going to be—that doesn’t mean it can’t still be something amazing.
Courtney Walsh (A Cross-Country Christmas (Road Trip Romance, #1))
We didn’t have enough years together. We didn’t have enough time. It could’ve been a hundred, and it still wouldn’t have been enough.
Courtney Walsh (The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley)
Mornings are the best time of day, Isadora. A clean slate. A chance to do better than you did yesterday.
Courtney Walsh (The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley)
Happiness isn’t that hard to find, you know. It’s everywhere. It’s all around us. But it’s not something that happens to us. It’s something we seek. It’s something we pursue. And you’ll never find it if you never let anyone in.
Courtney Walsh (The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley)
Easy, laid back and sexy as all get out. That pretty much summed up Josh Dixon. And none of those things were what she should be thinking about right now. Untrustworthy, unreliable and unfaithful. That’s what she should be thinking.
Courtney Walsh (Just One Kiss (Harbor Pointe, #3))
Adulting is hard. Even at twenty-eight, I haven’t mastered it. There are moments when I don't want to be strong, or independent, or responsible. There are moments I want someone else to take the risk, or make the decision, or tell me what to do.
Courtney Walsh (My Phony Valentine (Holidays with Hart, #1))
Her mantra is, “Come as you are, and there will be food.
Courtney Walsh (Can't Help Falling (Sweater Weather, #3))
I nod. "Yeah, I'm on the step where I tell her exactly how I feel and she kisses me behind the fudge shop." I deadpan.
Courtney Walsh (A Cross-Country Wedding (Road Trip Romance, #2))
The wounds, even as old as many of them are, somehow still feel heavy. A mother who never protected me still has an effect on me years later.
Courtney Walsh (The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley)
Your heart is so big, Eloise. And so tender.” “And you just keep giving pieces of it away.” Raya’s face is earnest, not judgmental.
Courtney Walsh (My Lucky Charm (Holidays with Hart, #2))
Every time I’ve been in a relationship, I always thought there was the possibility of it lasting forever. I had hope. Every time.
Courtney Walsh (My Lucky Charm (Holidays with Hart, #2))
I think it’s better to be present than it is to be on time.
Courtney Walsh (The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley)
No boyfriend?” he asked. “Nope,” she said. “I don’t mind being alone.” But the words didn’t ring true. She added, quietly, “People just can’t be trusted.
Courtney Walsh (A Cross-Country Christmas (Road Trip Romance, #1))
How many other incorrect assumptions had I made, seeing the world through my jaded lense?
Courtney Walsh (The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley)
I'm not wasting my time chopping up a pineapple, for Pete's sake. I've got life to avoid.
Courtney Walsh (The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley)
This wasn’t just some girl—this was Lauren. Lauren, the girl you marry.
Courtney Walsh (A Cross-Country Christmas (Road Trip Romance, #1))
All at once she was eighteen, a stupid girl with a stupid crush who believed that someone like Will might actually see her as anything more the his best friend's kid sister.
Courtney Walsh (A Cross-Country Christmas (Road Trip Romance, #1))
I glance at the line. It’s moving as fast as a sloth on Benadryl.
Courtney Walsh (My Phony Valentine (Holidays with Hart, #1))
She live on purpose -- like she used every color in the crayon box. The big box, too, with the built-in sharpener.
Courtney Walsh (If for Any Reason (Nantucket Love Story, #1))
When you’re young and full of invulnerable optimism, dreams are as easy as “Oh, I’ll just try that.” Everything seems attainable
Courtney Walsh (Merry Ex-Mas)
He smells like a forest and I want to get lost in the woods.
Courtney Walsh (My Phony Valentine (Holidays with Hart, #1))
I know I should stay away from him. There’s just one problem. I don’t want to.
Courtney Walsh (My Phony Valentine (Holidays with Hart, #1))
But then it occurs to me where one lives so often determines how one lives. Am I living in the right place?
Courtney Walsh (The Summer of Yes)
This feels. . .oddly familiar. Yes, he’s built like a statue, and yes, he’s insanely attractive, and yes, I should be a blubbering puddle of nonsensical words—but I’m not.
Courtney Walsh (My Phony Valentine (Holidays with Hart, #1))
I want to tell him all the small things.
Courtney Walsh (My Phony Valentine (Holidays with Hart, #1))
I’m only thinking about what I’ll gain.” “Which is what?” “You,” he says simply. “You are all I want.
Courtney Walsh (My Phony Valentine (Holidays with Hart, #1))
We were never made to spend our lives doing everything alone.
Courtney Walsh (Christmas With a Crank)
I want to belong to someone. I want to be safe. I want to be lifted up. I want to have a spot, I want to share unspoken secrets with a look, and I want the wind to make me soar.
Courtney Walsh (The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley)
The problem with holding in that hurt is that you’re stuck at that door, hand on the doorknob, every day. You don’t move forward because you’re too busy holding things back.
Courtney Walsh (The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley)
Then, to his grandma, “Are you comfortable? I think you should sit in the living room.” He reaches out to help her and she smacks his hand away. “I think you should go sit in traffic.
Courtney Walsh (My Phony Valentine (Holidays with Hart, #1))
I’ve believed in the potential for something serious. Something that might last forever. I’m not a person who guards my heart, I’m a person who offers it freely, willingly, pathetically.
Courtney Walsh (My Lucky Charm (Holidays with Hart, #2))
As a defense mechanism, Isadora Bentley often held full-on conversations with people in her unique and spectacular head. It made up for all the conversations she didn't have in real life.
Courtney Walsh (The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley)
She glanced at Betsy, who smiled as if they’d always been friends, the kind who could communicate without words, the kind who knew what the other one needed whether anyone said so or not.
Courtney Walsh (Just Look Up)
Time doesn’t heal all wounds. Time gives you distance and perspective. The time we had wasn’t enough, but it wasn’t nothing. I lived twenty-two amazing years as their son. And that was a gift.
Courtney Walsh (Merry Ex-Mas)
She couldn’t deny that a part of her was tipping over the precipice that held up her resolve. A part of her was falling for every single word, every crooked smile, every flash of his blue eyes.
Courtney Walsh (A Cross-Country Christmas (Road Trip Romance, #1))
Don’t let the precious moments pass you by, Cam. Take snapshots in your mind. Seal them in good and tight. These are the things you’ll carry with you. These are the moments that will keep you young.
Courtney Walsh (A Sweethaven Summer (Sweethaven Circle, #1))
I didn't have anyone, I spent a lot more time alone. I loved reading, and I know it sounds stupid, but the characters in the books I read became my best friends. The only ones who would never hurt me.
Courtney Walsh (A Cross-Country Christmas (Road Trip Romance, #1))
She knew her artwork reflected a side of her personality she didn’t typically let out. The side that wasn’t completely concerned with getting everything right. In a way, art gave her a chance to play.
Courtney Walsh (A Cross-Country Christmas (Road Trip Romance, #1))
Tonight, God was showing off, as pink and blue melded into purple, touched with a warm orange glow and the outline of the clouds, the fields, and the dusty road that seemed to stretch out in front of them forever
Courtney Walsh (A Cross-Country Christmas (Road Trip Romance, #1))
Ravi’s grandma reaches over and squeezes my hand, as if she senses that I’m on the precipice of a revelation and need a little push to let myself fly. “Be fearless, mera priya,” she says. “The world needs your voice.
Courtney Walsh (The Summer of Yes)
Dot, the truth is, we aren’t a couple.” Dot gasped, and brought her hand to her chest. “No!” “It’s true,” he continued. Will then reached across the table and took Lauren’s hand. “But if the stars align and things work out, the first time I kiss this woman is going to be because I want to—not because some tradition told me I had to.” Lauren froze in place, as if Will’s hand on hers shocked her body rigid. Dot let out a squeal. “Well, that was the most romantic thing I’ve ever heard!
Courtney Walsh (A Cross-Country Christmas (Road Trip Romance, #1))
It’s not the kind of smile that would alert the paparazzi, but it’s the kind of smile that a person could hold onto. The kind that could make, say, a man in a tough spot hope that things could turn around again. Like an anchor. A safe space to land.
Courtney Walsh (My Phony Valentine (Holidays with Hart, #1))
Lyndie was still something of a mystery to him. Hard to know, with an exterior that would be difficult to crack, but he wouldn't stop trying until she let him in. Something told him she would be worth the extra effort--did she see that about herself? Would she ever?
Courtney Walsh (Things Left Unsaid)
Just one thing. . .” Dallas starts. I can tell by the tone that he thinks he’s going to be funny. I turn and look at him, waiting. He’s scrunching up his face. “Him? You picked him?” “Shut up right now if you know what’s good for you.” “I mean, maybe with the lights off, or from far away, maybe, but up close?” he shudders. “That’s it. You’re on lockdown.” He gets on his knees. “Wait! No! I was kidding! I. . .” I hold up a hand. “Nope.” I take my pointer finger and circle my face and torso. “This? All of this? Now off limits.
Courtney Walsh (My Phony Valentine (Holidays with Hart, #1))
The wind is in control of the kite, but the kite doesn’t mind. It’s what actually makes a kite a kite. I’m starting to think I need to let go to soar. It’s such an odd feeling for me. It’s so different from what I’m used to. It’s like I’m being magnetically pulled in a completely new direction.
Courtney Walsh (The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley)
No, Isadora,” he says. “You were trusting.” “Which is basically the same thing.” He reaches out and takes my hand. “You just trusted the wrong person.” I meet his eyes, and I want to believe him. That ever-present voice calling out at the back of my mind—He’s just like everyone else! He’s going to leave too!—is strangely silent.
Courtney Walsh (The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley)
Small towns have long memories, don’t they?” He says this with a kind of authority I’m not sure he has. Instinctively, though, I know what he means. People don’t always let us become who we are. They try to keep us in the box of who we were. We’re all on our way to becoming someone new, aren’t we? I wonder who Dallas Burke is becoming. I wonder who I am becoming.
Courtney Walsh (My Phony Valentine (Holidays with Hart, #1))
Will walked into the bathroom while Lauren cowered, turned a circle in the small bathroom, and announced, “I don’t see anything.” “No, no, no.” She crept in, and pointed a shaking finger. “It was on the wall of the shower. It was right there, Will. It was huge!” “Huge?” “It had fur. It was the size of a small dog.” Will let out a laugh, then stopped, held up both hands as if to say ‘sorry.’ “I take it you don’t like spiders?
Courtney Walsh (A Cross-Country Christmas (Road Trip Romance, #1))
Step one: “Smile more.” No problem. I have a lovely smile. I catch a glimpse of myself in the glass of my fireplace and try it out. Hmm. I try again with teeth. Yikes. But I can do this. Of course I can. How hard can it be to smile? Chapter 3 Turns out, smiling is hard. I have a new appreciation for models. I’d always assumed it was easy to stand there and let someone take photos of you. I now understand it is not easy. My smile lands somewhere between “feeding hyena” and “painful constipation.
Courtney Walsh (The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley)
I’m not telling you that so you’ll feel bad. I just think you need to understand the whole picture. I don’t ever put myself in a situation where I might get hurt.” She kicked at something invisible, her shoe leaving an imprint in the thin layer of freshly fallen snow. “I don’t like taking risks on anyone other than myself, and only then when I’ve done so much research it doesn’t feel risky anymore. I focus on the things I can control. I date guys I have no real interest in because I know they can’t hurt me. I’m perfectly content to spend my weekends working or reading or reading about my work.
Courtney Walsh (A Cross-Country Christmas (Road Trip Romance, #1))
After a few slow dances, Dallas and I take a break. He stops by the punch table, as Raya walks over. Dallas hands me a glass, and then, without thinking, gives Raya the one he got for himself. “Thanks.” She takes it, and stares him down as he gets another for himself. “I was there for the first rendition of ‘Kiss You.’” “Oh?” He glances at me, then back at Raya. “Yours was much, much better than Poppy’s.” Raya’s expression remains the same. Dallas’s smile is tentative. “That was cool what you did.” Then, with a smile that would chill a corpse, she says, “But if you hurt her, I’ll kill you.” And with that, she walks away. “She secretly likes you,” I tell him. “If that’s her version of liking someone, I’d hate to be on her bad side.
Courtney Walsh (My Phony Valentine (Holidays with Hart, #1))
Don't take away the power of the sacrifice he made by doubting it or wishing it away.
Courtney Walsh (Is It Any Wonder (Nantucket Love Story, #2))
She was head over heels, completely in love with her best friend.
Courtney Walsh (A Match Made at Christmas)
With Pru, he could be whoever he was and feel whatever he felt. He was tired of pretending, and she was his safe place.
Courtney Walsh (A Match Made at Christmas)
It’s a risk. Love is messy. But life is messy too, and the regret of not trying could far outweigh the regret of everything falling apart.
Courtney Walsh (A Match Made at Christmas)
They were like two shattered pieces of glass, and she had to wonder if their pieces would ever fit together.
Courtney Walsh (A Match Made at Christmas)
I should go.” She took a step back and ran into a door. He didn’t look away, but he nodded slowly. “You should. Because if you don’t, I’m going to kiss you again.
Courtney Walsh (A Match Made at Christmas)
Look, everyone’s got history. Everyone has baggage. If you’re lucky enough to find someone willing to lug it around for you, you should let them. It doesn’t have to be ‘til death do you part. Just go have some fun!
Courtney Walsh (Merry Ex-Mas)
It’s hard when the one place on the planet with the most pain is the same place that feels the most like home.
Courtney Walsh (Merry Ex-Mas)
Look, everyone’s got history. Everyone has baggage. If you’re lucky enough to find someone willing to lug it around for you, you should let them.
Courtney Walsh (Merry Ex-Mas)
Between the two of us—I was the one who was proving to be untrustworthy. And he was proving to be exactly what I told myself he wasn’t—the man I’d always loved.
Courtney Walsh (Merry Ex-Mas)
I resist the urge to explain that by "anything," I really do mean "anything." Because that's what I'd do to have her in my life. No moving to Seattle. No starting over. I'm all in.
Courtney Walsh
My reasons for leaving haven’t changed. It was never about a lack of feelings for her—quite the opposite. The fact was, I loved Marin too much. And I’m afraid that hasn’t changed.
Courtney Walsh (Merry Ex-Mas)
Simon grins down at me. "I'm going to spend the rest of my life love you, Madeline Rogers." "And I'll happily return the favor.
Courtney Walsh (A Cross-Country Wedding (Road Trip Romance, #2))
My customers mean well, but by the time the interview rolls around and Lindsay shows up, I want to crawl into a hole and stay hidden until hell freezes over or Leonardo DiCaprio dates someone his own age, whichever comes first. Probably the hell thing.
Courtney Walsh (Can't Help Falling (Sweater Weather, #3))
And then the world goes into slow motion. Rudolph’s backside begins to wag, and before I know what’s happening, I see that the mishandled balloon is coming for us. More specifically, I see that we’re about to be devoured by two giant reindeer butt cheeks. “Rudolph’s butt is going to eat Santa!” A little kid calls out as we are sucked into the black hole of an upside-down reindeer rear end. My last thought before my world goes dark is this is going to go viral.
Courtney Walsh (Merry Ex-Mas)