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Susan Meissner QUOTES

Susan Meissner QUOTES

1 " You shouldn't imagine things that you haven't a shred of proof happened... "

― Susan Meissner

2 " Shut your eyes to the world of pain, and you also shut your eyes to the world of delight. "

― Susan Meissner , The Girl in the Glass

3 " Sometimes asking God for a reason for something is like asking Him why the sky is blue. There is a complex, scientific reason for it, Claire, but most children, including you, are content with knowing it is blue because it is. If we understood everything about everything, we would have no need for faith. "

― Susan Meissner , Why the Sky Is Blue

4 " It is much harder to pretend than it is to simply be who you already are. "

― Susan Meissner , A Bridge Across the Ocean

5 " ... love and fear can sometimes feel the same, but each will lead a person to take different actions. When a decision h as to be made, fear usually motivates me to choose what is best for me, whereas love motivates me to choose what is best for another person. Fear urges me to hang on, white knuckled, to what is mine, while love can actually lead me to let go.... when you hold something you love tightly to your chest for fear of losing it, you actually risk crushing it against you. "

― Susan Meissner , Stars Over Sunset Boulevard

6 " That's what we did, didn't we, Audrey? We learned to be brave when it was easier to be afraid. "

― Susan Meissner , Stars Over Sunset Boulevard

7 " We were both shattered. We were broken people who longed to be whole. We thought it was love that was driving us to do what we did. But it wasn't love. It was fear. We were both too afraid of ending up unwanted and unneeded. "

― Susan Meissner , Stars Over Sunset Boulevard

8 " We're going to be okay. Lainey isn't the glue that keeps us together. We are. We're the glue. Okay? "

― Susan Meissner , Stars Over Sunset Boulevard

9 " Please don't let the unhappiness you knew in the past keep you from accepting happiness now. "

― Susan Meissner , Secrets of a Charmed Life

10 " Oh, but it's our tears that make us human, Isabel. "

― Susan Meissner , Secrets of a Charmed Life

11 " The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it. "

― Susan Meissner , Lady in Waiting

12 " I'm not sure why God made us the way He did... As to why we're here, well, I think maybe we're here to learn to love Him. To learn to love God and to want to be with Him. I think we're here to cultivate our longing for heaven. '

Luke sighed. 'Heaven,' he said, 'seems like a long, long way off, Dad.'

Jack nodded. 'It does. But I think God gives us glimpses of heaven from time to time to help up nurture the desire... I see glimpses every spring when the earth renews itself. And sometimes I see glimpses in a worship service when I'm singing about Jesus and all of a sudden I feel like I'm right there in His arms. "

― Susan Meissner , In All Deep Places

13 " Which one of them would make you the most sad if you had to live your life without him? "

― Susan Meissner

14 " What's there to remember if not the good things? "

― Susan Meissner , The Girl in the Glass

15 " Love (they say) sometimes flies, sometimes walks, runs with one, creeps with another, warms a third, burns a fourth, wounding some, and slaying others. In one moment it begins, performs and concludes its career; lays siege in the morning to a fortress which is surrendered before night, there being no fortress that can withstand its power.” —Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra "

― Susan Meissner , A Fall of Marigolds

16 " A. I want my readers to remember a book of mine after they’ve turned the last page, partly so they will want to read more from me, but also because I want them to feel that reading it was well worth their time. I guess I want a book that I write to be more than entertainment that is enjoyable for the moment but forgettable as the months go by. I don’t make a conscious effort to craft quotable prose when I write, but I do endeavor to pose questions and suggest insights that speak across the pages into a reader’s life. For me, that translates into a good reason for having read the book. I always remember a book more fully and longer if I’ve been so emotionally tugged that I find myself highlighting phrases I don’t want to forget. And I usually can’t wait for that author’s next book! Khaled Hosseini’s books are always like that for me. Q. "

― Susan Meissner , Stars Over Sunset Boulevard

17 " *Nice* was a word that I'd not been able to say in such a long time, and it encompassed so much in that moment. It truly did. *Nice* is a throwaway word until it's not. "

― Susan Meissner , The Last Year of the War

18 " Maybe being brave is different from being unafraid. If you're not afraid, what is there to be brave about? "

― Susan Meissner , The Last Year of the War

19 " And even as I'm telling her what I have done with my life, I realize that I have in fact learned what I am good at, what she told me so very long ago I needed to figure out.

I am good at loving people, I have always been good at loving people, and I don't suppose there's any skill better than that. Surely that is what God intended all along for me. "

― Susan Meissner , The Last Year of the War

20 " It is the nature of the earth to shift. It is the nature of fragile things to break. It is the nature of fire to burn. "

― Susan Meissner , The Nature of Fragile Things