“You shouldn't imagine things that you haven't a shred of proof happened...” — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
“Hurried people miss many things. They see only what is right on top. . . .” — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it. — Susan Meissner Choices Copy Share Image
“Life is wonderful and beautiful but oh, how hard it can be.” — Susan Meissner Beautiful Copy Share Image
“When you are hungry for something, you often do not use your best judgment.” — Susan Meissner Food 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 only do what is expected of you, you never learn what you would've done had you chosen for yourself.” — 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
“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
“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
“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 Evil 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
“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 Butterflies 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
“Sometimes asking God for a reason for something is like asking Him why the sky is blue. There is a complex, scientific… — 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 Charmed life Copy Share Image
“I don't know very many people who can piece together eloquent prayers when their souls are wounded. Words don't come at those… — Susan Meissner Eloquent 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 Copy Share Image
“I want to be walking down this street with Mama, headed where we're headed. But her hand in mine makes me feel… — Susan Meissner Comfort 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 Affection 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 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 Thoughts 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
“I think literature reveals more about us than history does.” — Susan Meissner Books Copy Share Image
“Everyone has a past, and everyone's past matters.” — Susan Meissner Historical fiction 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
“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
“We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.” — 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..… — Susan Meissner Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Shut your eyes to the world of pain, and you also shut your eyes to the world of delight.” — Susan Meissner Inspirational quotes 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
“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
“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
“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
“Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the… — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image