“Everyone has a past, and everyone's past matters.” — Susan Meissner Historical fiction Copy Share Image
“Life is wonderful and beautiful but oh, how hard it can be.” — Susan Meissner Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Hurried people miss many things. They see only what is right on top. . . .” — Susan Meissner Hurried Copy Share Image
The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it. — Susan Meissner Choices Copy Share Image
“You shouldn't imagine things that you haven't a shred of proof happened...” — Susan Meissner Happened 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“[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
“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
“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
“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 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
“When you are hungry for something, you often do not use your best judgment.” — Susan Meissner Food 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
“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 Evil 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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