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A Fall of Marigolds QUOTES

A Fall of Marigolds QUOTES

1 " 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

2 " The person who completes your life is not so much the person who shares all the years of your existence, but rather the person who made your life worth living, no matter how long or short a time you were given to spend with them. "

― Susan Meissner , A Fall of Marigolds

3 " Everything beautiful has a story it wants to tell. "

― Susan Meissner , A Fall of Marigolds

4 " Do not choose to abandon love because you are afraid that it will crush you. Love is the only true constant in a fragile world. "

― Susan Meissner , A Fall of Marigolds

5 " It should always make us happy to say that loving someone and being loved by someone is worth whatever price paid. "

― Susan Meissner , A Fall of Marigolds

6 " Love was both the softest edge and the sharpest edge of what made life real. "

― Susan Meissner , A Fall of Marigolds

7 " things. "

― Susan Meissner , A Fall of Marigolds

8 " I understood nothing really about love, only that it was the most devastating, most spectacular, most desirable force on earth. Love was both the softest edge and the sharpest edge of what made life real. "

― Susan Meissner , A Fall of Marigolds

9 " Kindness is always motivated by something nobler than just a desire to be kind. "

― Susan Meissner , A Fall of Marigolds

10 " 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

11 " 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. "

― Susan Meissner , A Fall of Marigolds

12 " 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. "

― Susan Meissner , A Fall of Marigolds

13 " Love is the only true constant in a fragile world. "

― Susan Meissner , A Fall of Marigolds

14 " Everything beautiful has a story it wants to tell. But not every story is beautiful. "

― Susan Meissner , A Fall of Marigolds

15 " Life is real, in all its complexity. And though it can be painfully difficult, it can also be unspeakably wonderful. "

― Susan Meissner , A Fall of Marigolds

16 " 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. "

― Susan Meissner , A Fall of Marigolds

17 " People who say everything happens for a reason usually say that only when they agree with the reason. "

― Susan Meissner , A Fall of Marigolds

18 " But heaven seems a place where truth cannot hurt. Here, the truth can be devastating. "

― Susan Meissner , A Fall of Marigolds

19 " then surely there is an adversary. There is something opposed to you. Something that desires to defeat you. You want to believe your enemy is the disease. You don’t want to believe even for a minute that the enemy is your own body, this weak tent of flesh that cannot stand up against a speck of contagion, this fragile weave of muscle, bone, and soul that also cannot resist the power of flame nor the pull of the ground "

― Susan Meissner , A Fall of Marigolds

20 " Poetry speaks slowly. My mother told me that. We are usually too much in a hurry. "

― Susan Meissner , A Fall of Marigolds