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101 " You don’t realize how small your world is when you are a child. Your parents are your east and west, your sun and moon. "
― Susan Meissner , The Girl in the Glass
102 " Fear is a heaviness you can't wriggle out from under. You must simply find the will to stand with it and start walking. Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can't take. "
― Susan Meissner , Secrets of a Charmed Life
103 " I can’t imagine God keeping mothers from their children in that beautiful place, "
― Susan Meissner , The Nature of Fragile Things
104 " Think of England as a very large book. The Cotswolds would be an unfussy chapter in the middle somewhere where there is lots of limestone and even more sheep. "
105 " He's more than just the baby she found all those years ago. He's the proof that out of a great pile of ashes you can still find something that the fire didn't take. "
― Susan Meissner , As Bright as Heaven
106 " Death doesn't ever look at shoulda, though, does it? Death looks at nothing. It just does what it's meant to do. "
107 " Sometimes the expectation is better than the fulfillment. "
― Susan Meissner , A Fall of Marigolds
108 " Sometimes what you want is given to you in a way that is so very different from how you had pictured getting it "
― Susan Meissner , The Last Year of the War
109 " have learned this is her way of coming to terms with events she cannot control. We all have to find a way to do that, don’t we? "
110 " Thistle House is for people who love and care for one another. We respect one another in this house, Emmeline. We carry one another's burdens. We weep for one another and we laugh with one another. We hold one another by the hand when the lights go out and when the way seems hopeless. We work together and we share the table together and we pray together. No matter how old we are or what we are called. "
― Susan Meissner
111 " We belong far less to where we’ve come from than where we want to go. —FRANZ WERFEL "
112 " When people are thrown into an abyss and together find their way out of it, they are not the same people. They are bound to one "
113 " There were a thousand words for dreams realized and only one common whimper for hopes interrupted. "
114 " Fear is not only a leaden foe, but a liar as well. It was not as bad as I thought it would be, sitting there in a London department store on an ordinary Saturday. "
115 " stop and consider that there is always, always the other road to choose, even if it seems to be nothing more than an unpaved path in the middle of nowhere? On "
116 " We decide who and what we will love and who and what we will hate. We decide what we will do with the love and hate. Every day we decide. It was this that revealed who we were, not the color of our flesh or the shape of our eyes or the language we spoke. "
117 " I want to learn how to look deep to see what people are really like. I want to be the kind of person who plunges past the surface and seeks to know the inner thoughts of the people I am around. "
― Susan Meissner , Why the Sky Is Blue
118 " It’s that sacred place where your soul is at rest because all the people you love most are there. "
119 " The main reason I have come here is to shuffle Death back to the place where it belong. That won't happen if I don't get to tangle with it. "
120 " They aren't afraid to take risks, but they don't gamble. They are generous but not extravagant. They thrive on beauty of economics, the fact that it is both art and science. "
― Susan Meissner , The Shape of Mercy