Susan Meissner Quotes

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We are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.

Susan Meissner

You shouldn't imagine things that you haven't a shred of proof happened...

Susan Meissner

We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.

Susan Meissner

No one thinks much about their ability to breathe; they just do it. It's when a person can't breathe, that they suddenly realize they'd been doing something truly marvelous all along.

Susan Meissner

When you only do what is expected of you, you never learn what you would've done had you chosen for yourself.

Susan Meissner

I used to think mercy meant showing kindness to someone who didn't deserve it, as if only the recipient defined the act. The girl in between has learned that mercy is defined by its giver. Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.

Susan Meissner