“Everything in my life suddenly shifted into focus. It was like time froze and I was given a dazzling moment to comprehend… — Susan Meissner 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 Copy Share Image
“understand there are no secrets to a charmed life. There is just the simple truth that you must forgive yourself for only… — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
“Papa said marriage is not kept by affection but by a pledge. Affection does not beget the pledge; the pledge begets the… — Susan Meissner 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 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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
“Which one of them would make you the most sad if you had to live your life without him?” — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
“Poetry speaks slowly. My mother told me that. We are usually too much in a hurry.” — Susan Meissner 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 the difference… — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
“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… — Susan Meissner 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 Copy Share Image
“You shouldn't imagine things that you haven't a shred of proof happened...” — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it. — Susan Meissner 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 you don’t… — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
“Shut your eyes to the world of pain, and you also shut your eyes to the world of delight.” — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
“Hurried people miss many things. They see only what is right on top. . . .” — Susan Meissner 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 everywhere I… — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
