“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
“School gave me wings to leave rural Pennsylvania for Philadelphia, and my diploma gave me wings to Manhattan.” — Susan Meissner Graduation 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 Charmed life 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
“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
“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 think literature reveals more about us than history does.” — Susan Meissner Books 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
“Papa said marriage is not kept by affection but by a pledge. Affection does not beget the pledge; the pledge begets the… — Susan Meissner Life Copy Share Image
“I used to think mercy meant showing kindness to someone who didn't deserve it, as if only the recipient defined the act.… — Susan Meissner Able 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
When we trust someone, we believe what they tell us is true. We experience it as being true. It's not the experience… — Susan Meissner Being true 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
“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
“It’s what I lost. I could see him turning the sentence around in his head. Examining it as he would a wound… — Susan Meissner Broken things 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
“Everyone has a past, and everyone's past matters.” — Susan Meissner Historical fiction 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
“Life is real, in all its complexity. And though it can be painfully difficult, it can also be unspeakably wonderful.” — Susan Meissner Life Copy Share Image
“We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.” — Susan Meissner Born 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
“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
“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
