Susan Wiggs Quotes

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• There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.
• You're never alone when you're reading a book.
• She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible…
• When you're with the person you love, you're home.
• The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once.
• Here's the thing about broken hearts. You can always survive them. Always. No matter how deep the hurt, the capacity to heal and move on…
• Kids aren't supposed to have to figure out how to be happy. They just are.
• You are TSTL. I beg your pardon. Too stupid to live.
• It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked
• What's difficult to understand about German opera? It's always the same. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love, girl gets devoured by horrible winged creature…
• Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.
• My adult life has been a patchwork of projects, most of which were fleeting fancies of overreaching vision. I tend to seize on things, only…
• At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power
• Amaryllis in Blueberry is a rich, evocative story about an unusual family that will sweep readers away to another place and time. Amaryllis's voice is…
• Fear and love were sometimes the same thing both necessary unavoidable. Now she understood that it was okay to bleed if you know how to…
• Everybody's in love when they're eighteen. And everybody gets dumped.
• Unexpected change is like a breath of fresh air -- a little brisk at first, but magic for the body and soul.
• I love my life, my family and my friends, and I'm drawn to 'relationship' novels because of their affirming focus on the power of love…
• In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have always been drawn to…
• An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense.

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