Susan Wiggs

“Don't let the things you have to do take over the things you love to do.”

— Susan Wiggs

Everybody's in love when they're eighteen. And everybody gets dumped.

— Susan Wiggs

You are TSTL. I beg your pardon. Too stupid to live.

— Susan Wiggs

“Wishful thinking is a powerful force.”

— Susan Wiggs

When you're with the person you love, you're home.

— Susan Wiggs

Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.

— Susan Wiggs

Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.

— Susan Wiggs

“Love wasn't love if she had to try too hard to feel it.”

— Susan Wiggs

Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.

— Susan Wiggs

“Feed your friends, and their mouths will be too full to gossip, Bubbie used to say. Feed your enemies, and they’ll become…

— Susan Wiggs

There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.

— Susan Wiggs

“More than a thousand veterans still remained unaccounted for, and his father, Richard Arthur Finnemore, was one of them.”

— Susan Wiggs

I never felt I was incapable of succeeding because I felt confident I could always learn what I needed to know.

— Susan Wiggs

“She was the living, breathing proof that the hard things in life didn't have to defeat you - or even define you.”

— Susan Wiggs

“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. —John Berger, English art critic”

— Susan Wiggs

“It isn’t fair, but maybe that’s the whole point. Fairness has no part in real life, and she took that lesson away…

— Susan Wiggs

“I like the organza tiebacks. They're pretty and ethereal." "Lovely. I think those are the ones." "Me, too. And hey, can we…

— Susan Wiggs

“She knew the soothing power of a human touch on aching flesh. Knew the strange bond that formed when two creatures united…

— Susan Wiggs

“The trees had long since dropped their colorful matntles of leaves. The grass had gone dormant and lay dry and beaten down,…

— Susan Wiggs

She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed…

— Susan Wiggs

I love my life, my family and my friends, and I'm drawn to 'relationship' novels because of their affirming focus on the…

— Susan Wiggs

“There were few forces greater than the power of a fourteen-year-old’s determination when she wanted something. A teenager would stop at nothing…

— Susan Wiggs

“The handblown glass pickle ornaments from Lauscha in Germany can date back as far as 1847, and are treasured by families everywhere.…

— Susan Wiggs

“She had always been good at dreaming, but what she had never done before was believe a dream could actually come true.…

— Susan Wiggs

“understanding. The day she and Rand had broken up, her father had spoken with surprising insight: There’s a kind of love that…

— Susan Wiggs

“Of course his name would be Dominic. It meant "gift from God." AKA a life-support system for an ego. Still, that didn't…

— Susan Wiggs

“Antonio was fascinated by Isabel's razor-sharp knives from Japan. He made 'kia' sounds like a karate expert as he sliced the tomatoes…

— Susan Wiggs

“You’re good at so many things,” Camille said. “I’m a fat loser,” Julie stated. “And don’t say I’m not fat because I…

— Susan Wiggs

Amaryllis in Blueberry is a rich, evocative story about an unusual family that will sweep readers away to another place and time.…

— Susan Wiggs

“Returning to the buffet, she helped herself to another piece of focaccia bread, the top glistening with a sheen of olive oil…

— Susan Wiggs

“There can be no fooling ourselves into thinking this is something other than what it is—the willful ejection of Molly from our…

— Susan Wiggs

“In this life, I had all I ever wanted. Losing Erik was a sadness that knit itself into my soul, but that…

— Susan Wiggs

“This is the first real food I've had since the patisserie trolley at the Bordeaux airport," Shannon said. She took a bite,…

— Susan Wiggs

“Servers moved among the guests with trays of hors d'oeuvres and the signature cocktail, champagne with a honey infused liqueur and a…

— Susan Wiggs

“She loved old things. The brown-brick place was a survivor of the 1907 earthquake and fire, and proudly bore a plaque from…

— Susan Wiggs

“AMERICAN LEGION FUNERAL HOT DISH 1 pound ground beef ½ onion, chopped 1 cup frozen sliced carrots 1 cup frozen cauliflower 1…

— Susan Wiggs

“BACKYARD GARDEN SALAD In wartime, patriotic families cultivated “Victory Gardens” to promote self-sufficiency and help the war effort. 4 cups mixed greens…

— Susan Wiggs

“Life could be very distracting, thought Isabel. And that was a good thing. It kept her from focusing on things that couldn't…

— Susan Wiggs

“Isabel had always enjoyed a house full of people. 'Feed your friends, and their mouths will be too full to gossip,' Bubbie…

— Susan Wiggs

“FRIENDSHIP BREAD STARTER 3 cups sugar 3 cups flour 3 cups milk Day 1: In a nonmetal bowl, combine 1 cup sugar,…

— Susan Wiggs