“[Evie] says the flu wanted to make barbarians of us, to have us think life is not precious and the dead are not worthy of our kindest care. Our humanity is what made what happened to us so terrible.” — 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 between that moment and the one before it. No one made choices for me. I made them. If I took no risks in the choices I’d made, it was because I didn’t have the courage to… — Susan Meissner Copy Share
“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
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