Susan Vreeland

“The winsome lilt of Digna humming in the garden. Her knowing, almost teasing look, not quite a smile, when she knew she…

— Susan Vreeland

“At this stage of life, he'd better just lean into love, because if he fell, he feared he might break a hip.”

— Susan Vreeland

“Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life..."It's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes…

— Susan Vreeland

“How love builds itself unconsciously, he thought, out of the momentous ordinary.”

— Susan Vreeland

“In the end, it's only the moments that we have.”

— Susan Vreeland

He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch of the…

— Susan Vreeland

Look long enough, out or in, and you’ll be glad you are who you are.

— Susan Vreeland

“Now he knew . . . that there was nothing so vital as paying attention, and perfecting the humble offices of love.”

— Susan Vreeland

“Overblown responsibility was a part of my preoccupation with myself.”

— Susan Vreeland

That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through…

— Susan Vreeland

“No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to…

— Susan Vreeland

“A woman can't stay hard when all around her is loveliness.”

— Susan Vreeland

“A hard choice. Water or books. Hmm. One could always have wine instead.”

— Susan Vreeland

“People who would be that close to her, she thought, a matter of a few arms' lengths, looking, looking, and they would…

— Susan Vreeland

“I came to see that knowing what love isn't might be just as valuable, though infinitely less satisfying, as knowing what it…

— Susan Vreeland

“The only place Aletta and I could be together unseen was just under the rafters in the church tower, a circumstance that…

— Susan Vreeland

“Things that have been lost and then found are doubly precious, don't you think. People too.”

— Susan Vreeland

“In the end, it's only the moments that we have, the kiss on the palm, the joint wonder at the furrowed texture…

— Susan Vreeland

“She plucked a raspberry. Sweet juice, sweet pleasure. Within the tangle of tendrils, inside a blossom, a tiny bead was kisses and…

— Susan Vreeland

“Love is so easily bruised by the necessity of making choices.”

— Susan Vreeland

God taking from us and loving us at the same time by providing comforters was a kind of spiritual equanimity. It seemed…

— Susan Vreeland

Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.

— Susan Vreeland

“Maybe that's what love was -- walking willingly into the unknown for the sake of the other.”

— Susan Vreeland

If two people love the same thing, she reasoned, then they must love each other, at least a little, even if they…

— Susan Vreeland

“If you want to preach, young man, you ought to wear some kind of clerical costume so people would be warned. In…

— Susan Vreeland