Susan Wiggs Quotes

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

It's best to know what your issues are before going ahead with a relationship.

Just being a good person doesn't necessarily entitle you to a good life.

She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~

No creature should ever be trapped against its will," she used to say. "It will ruin itself, just trying to escape.

The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once.

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

The main boy - the one who was calling the shots - pushed

remember the love.

I would forfeit the very surety of my soul to be the man who brings that look upon your face.

Good God, what must I do to win you?

Make me a part of this place. Make me a part of Caitlin. Please, God, I love her so.

You can't rewind life or undo things.

On Sunday, something washed up on shore.

watched as the earth mother turned into a corporate dominatrix, chewing out the legal counsel

Don't let the things you have to do take over the things you love to do," Gran

Having a Mac all to himself was pretty amazing.

Scary thought - what if I get to know myself and I'm someone I don't want to be?

And that refuge was the most reliable place of all - between the pages of a book.

No one had ever told them they might need each other one day, an for some reason, they hadn't figured it out themselves.

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There was something in the way a man held a woman when he was about to let her go.

And if you don't believe memories are worth more than money, then perhaps you've not made the right kind of memories.

The best way to keep from stumbling over the past was to move forward,

An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense.

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

That if you never get your hopes up," she said, taking a sip of hot chocolate, "you'll never be disappointed." "Ouch,

Caitlin, I was born to worry about you.

One afternoon, she went to Washington Square

You're never alone when you're reading a book.

Unexpected change is like a breath of fresh air
a little brisk at first, but magic for the body and soul.

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

We often destroy the world's real wealth to create an illusion of wealth, confusing symbol and substance.

Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.

Wishful thinking is a powerful force.

It isn't fair, but maybe that's the whole point. Fairness has no part in real life, and she took that lesson away from the Hotel Angeline with her.

If I'm all alone, then the standard for sanity is up to me entirely.

That's how it is with infants. The minute the pain's gone, so are the tears. If more people would do that, the world would be a happier place.

She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.

Love wasn't a selfish thing. It was the kindest, most generous impulse a man could have.

the main character saying things like "In my world, chocolate is a vegetable.

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 heal.

Do you feel the magic?" "Aye," he breathed into her salt-dusted hair. "It's all around me, but most especially, here in my arms.

Dreams changed a person, and there was a little danger in that, because having a powerful dream made you vulnerable to failure and disappointment.

Sometimes if you want something badly enough, you make it happen through sheer force of will.

Kids aren't supposed to have to figure out how to be happy. They just are.

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

Oh, aye. A bit of mist in the air might bring the selkies out to play. The selkies are seal people, you know.

Wake up & Smell The Hot Chocolate ! ~ Eddie Havens

Her whole body flared to life with a fiery blush. Maybe that was why the term "old flame" had been invented. Somebody always got burned.

Just my luck, she thought. Here I am in the middle of nowhere, and Easy Rider comes to my rescue.

It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked

Think about kissing boys all the time. Me and all my friends. We even practice making out with our pillows.

heart - life had grace notes. These were moments so sweet that they could be tucked like the smallest of keepsakes, never to be forgotten. She

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. - Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846 - 1916), American essayist

I'm glad i found photography. It's a way to connect with the world.

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

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

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

He could look out the window and see nothing but deep snow and deep woods, the perfect picture for Christmas.

Nobody can fix another person. But everybody tries.

You always look on the dark side of life. I believe in capturing the moment ... Joy is so fleeting. You never know when it might be snatched away.

No more taking the Lord's name in vain or even in earnest.

Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man's ignorance.

It's funny how much influence our parents have on us." "True.

If you're drowning for real, and nobody believes you, then you sure as hell better figure out how to swim.

I came here to conquer you. And here I stay, a willing prisoner of your heart.

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

compassionate people? Would this

celebutante lifestyle

happen to know any Russian

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

Maybe you're not meant to remember the details. Just the feelings. Just the lessons. Just the love.
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one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer - and the other seven will know her.

Rourke was the Grim Reaper with a hard-on.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said, "America's greatest contribution to the world is the summer camp." Anyone

You're right. I have no heart because I lost it to you.

At the center of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.

When something is hard, but you do it anyway and get stronger because you did it, that's building character.

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