“Everyone has a past, and everyone's past matters.” — Susan Meissner Historical fiction Copy Share Image
“You shouldn't imagine things that you haven't a shred of proof happened...” — Susan Meissner Happened Copy Share Image
“Life is wonderful and beautiful but oh, how hard it can be.” — Susan Meissner Beautiful Copy Share Image
The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it. — Susan Meissner Choices Copy Share Image
“Which one of them would make you the most sad if you had to live your life without him?” — Susan Meissner Florence Copy Share Image
“Death doesn't ever look at shoulda, though, does it? Death looks at nothing. It just does what it's meant to do.” — Susan Meissner Death Copy Share Image
“Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the… — Susan Meissner Able Copy Share Image
“Home isn't a safe place where everything stays the same; it's a place where you are safe and loved despite nothing staying… — Susan Meissner Historical fiction Copy Share Image
“People who are free to choose will choose the best use for whatever it is they possess. Wealth and prosperity begin with… — Susan Meissner Freedom Copy Share Image
“Terrible things can happen to you that leave you unable to risk trusting the world with what you love; I know this… — Susan Meissner Terrible things Copy Share Image
We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages… — Susan Meissner Lays Copy Share Image
“You think you have a view of what's waiting for you just up the road, but then something happens, and you find… — Susan Meissner Future Copy Share Image
“Yes. Strangely enough, war has a way of absolving us of the mistakes we make while in its dreadful shadow, but it… — Susan Meissner Failure Copy Share Image
“I want you to know that love is not a person. It is not of this earth at all. It wasn't until… — Susan Meissner Love Copy Share Image
“thoughts are not things you can give or not give. Thoughts are thrust upon you. You can only hope that thoughts that… — Susan Meissner Philosophy of Mind Copy Share Image
“We are both of us torn by the weight of knowing all these people cannot possibly be witches. If we speak in… — Susan Meissner Doing the right thing Copy Share Image
“The person who completes your life is not so much the person who shares all the years of your existence, but rather… — Susan Meissner Life Copy Share Image
“[Evie] says the flu wanted to make barbarians of us, to have us think life is not precious and the dead are… — Susan Meissner Death Copy Share Image
“They aren't afraid to take risks, but they don't gamble. They are generous but not extravagant. They thrive on beauty of economics,… — Susan Meissner Art and science Copy Share Image
“There is a calming aura at the ocean’s edge, despite the frothing foam, crashing waves and roaring white noise. The ocean looks… — Susan Meissner Bad day Copy Share Image
“Everything in my life suddenly shifted into focus. It was like time froze and I was given a dazzling moment to comprehend… — Susan Meissner Choice Copy Share Image
“Disease has no intent. It doesn't want anything. It has no malevolent desire to kill. If it could talk it would not… — Susan Meissner Computers Copy Share Image
“Hurried people miss many things. They see only what is right on top. . . .” — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
“I think literature reveals more about us than history does.” — Susan Meissner Books Copy Share Image
“Poetry speaks slowly. My mother told me that. We are usually too much in a hurry.” — Susan Meissner Parenting Copy Share Image
“When you are hungry for something, you often do not use your best judgment.” — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
“And what does war even accomplish? How does one country win over another by simply killing its people? None of it makes… — Susan Meissner Historical fiction Copy Share Image
“When you only do what is expected of you, you never learn what you would've done had you chosen for yourself.” — Susan Meissner Chosen Copy Share Image
“Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll… — Susan Meissner Book Copy Share Image
“Life is real, in all its complexity. And though it can be painfully difficult, it can also be unspeakably wonderful.” — Susan Meissner Difficult Copy Share Image
“If people don't do their part to stop the spread of evil when they're asked to, it just gets stronger and then… — Susan Meissner Historical fiction Copy Share Image
“We're not like God, [Papa] says. We can't know. We can't live like we do know or should have known.” — Susan Meissner Future Copy Share Image
“I don’t see how you can live in a black and white world without becoming…uncreative. You can’t make anything new. Everything already… — Susan Meissner Black and white Copy Share Image
“School gave me wings to leave rural Pennsylvania for Philadelphia, and my diploma gave me wings to Manhattan.” — Susan Meissner Graduation Copy Share Image
“People who say everything happens for a reason usually say that only when they agree with the reason.” — Susan Meissner Happens for a reason Copy Share Image
“I hope [Willa] still thinks butterflies are beautiful. I think they are. We shouldn't think for a moment that just because their… — Susan Meissner Historical fiction Copy Share Image
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