Quotes from Kristin Billerbeck

Love isn't safe. And whoever you love will hurt you. It's part of the human experience. No one is perfect...People make mistakes. The secret is to focus on what they do right and decide what quirks you can live with.

Sometimes our biggest mistakes give us our greatest reward.

you can plan so that nothing goes wrong in life. But something will, and it won't be what you expected to go wrong. So make sure you're with someone who will help you bail the water out of the boat, not someone who will blame you for the hole.

I may not be desperate. But I'm close.

What if I'm destined to be single for the rest of my life, and you're upsetting the balance of nature and God's plan?

No one who truly understands grace will tell a person their sin is beyond it.

I'm getting married because it's time and I want to have a family." "No, that's why men get married. Women get married because they're in love.

Marriage is like calculus. Complicated and inexplicably remote. People think it's about loving one another and riding off into the sunset, but no one tells you the horse is lame or that it's an eclipse, and there won't be a sunset that day.

One has to be proactive in warding off ugly, and that costs money.

Wouldn't it be great if God just blew an air horn in your ear and told you exactly what to do? It's that whole free will business. Gets in my way every time.

If he only knew how often she and Eileen had discussed the benefits of Netflix on dateless weekend nights.

I'm not saying there aren't a few who marry the guy for his money. There are, but I believe there are more of us who marry because we grew up believing in the fairy tale, and no one ever told us it was a lie.

There's a world I could do without: public underwear showings. There was a time in my lifetime when you had to open a J.C. Penney catalog to see people in their underwear. Now it's like the national pastime, hanging out in your underwear. I don't see why they have to pay anyone to model it.

My mom says the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, but I'm hopeful that their tree was on a hill and I'm rolling farther away as write

Self-esteem comes from the Lord, not other people. Why should we care what other's think?

Life is full of bad surprises.

I'm at the mall the other day and there's a 'brow bar.' To get your eyebrows shaped inside the makeup department. Right by the door where everyone is coming and going, can you imagine? There is no feminine mystique left. Remember how we were taught not to have our Mary Janes so polished that a boy could see up our dresses? Now they wear their underwear instead of clothes. No need for boys to peek any longer.

Everything with me is a test on some level, which is the most likely reason I'm still single. I'm like an eternal four-year-old, always trying to figure out what makes people tick and asking "Why?" instead of just letting them be.

You have to get past them. Life doesn't give us other options. You either learn from mistakes and grow or stagnate." Joel stared off into the distance.

I'm not Jane Eyre for goodness' sake.

Take the money, no take the money, but leave my stove out of it.

Like God's mercies are new every day, the scent of rain washes away what's old and begins fresh.

Some women are meant to be rescued and romanced. Others, like me, are meant to take notes.

What was the point of praying every day and believing in forgiveness if you weren't willing to accept this?