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61 " He could not know that thoughts are not things you can give or not give. Thoughts are thrust upon you. You can only hope that thoughts that you don't want will tire of you at some point and flutter away. "
― Susan Meissner , A Fall of Marigolds
62 " but if I know anything about time, it is that it stretches to walk with you when you grieve. The rest of the world may zoom past at breakneck speed, but when you are learning to live with loss, time slows to the pace of your breathing. "
― Susan Meissner , Secrets of a Charmed Life
63 " I don’t know how to thank you.’‘You can help someone else down the road, when the time comes.’Emmy fingered away wetness at her eyes. She knew she would remember that moment for the rest of her life, that moment when someone who barely knew her fulfilled every childhood wish she’d ever had to feel she mattered. "
64 " Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us. "
― Susan Meissner , The Shape of Mercy
65 " We do not become different people as we age; we just add layers of experience onto who we already are. "
― Susan Meissner , The Last Year of the War
66 " You want to fix what hurts the moment it starts hurting, but this time you're going to have to embrace the slowness of healing. You'll never be able to live with this part of your story until you realize you must make peace with what happened to you and your part in it. And that takes time. "
― Susan Meissner , As Bright as Heaven
67 " we play the cards we’ve been dealt—as Isabel in Secrets of a Charmed Life says—based on finite knowledge, and while being largely unaware that everyone around us is playing their own cards. "
68 " I think this is the danger we face whenever time passes and those who have suffered recover from what flattened them. The generation coming up behind might underestimate or miss completely all that the older generation survived. Q. "
69 " Sooner or later she will learn time changes everything, takes everything: sometimes in a blink, and sometimes so slowly you can’t even see it happening. "
70 " Life is wonderful and beautiful but oh, how hard it can be. "
71 " My choices that terrible morning had been prompted by love. What others had chosen had been prompted by hate. The effects of our choices had spilled onto each other. They always did. "
72 " I want you to know that love is not a person. It is not of this earth at all. It wasn't until now that I realized I had mistakenly come to believe that love came from a place inside me and therefore had to protect that place. It comes from heaven, Eleanor. It is given to us not to hold on to or hide from, but to give away. "
73 " Love is the only true constant in a fragile world. "
74 " Love is not blind—it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. "
― Susan Meissner , Why the Sky Is Blue
75 " But life is lived at the moment you are living it, she thought. No one but God in heaven has the benefit of seeing beyond today. "
76 " Everything beautiful has a story it wants to tell. But not every story is beautiful. "
77 " I guess our eyes don't change much from when we were young. Perhaps it's just how we see things that changes. "
78 " Life is real, in all its complexity. And though it can be painfully difficult, it can also be unspeakably wonderful. "
79 " Everything beautiful has a story it wants to tell'" she said reading aloud the store's tagline at the top of the form.. "I love that. "
80 " we, as a society, archive our history. We don’t want to forget where we’ve been and what we’ve seen. The past informs us, and can easily transform us, if we choose to let it. Q. "