Susan Wiggs Quotes

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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 to abandon them due to a lack of time, talent or inclination.

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

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

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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 to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.

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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 with claws.

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

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

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

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

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There's a kind of love that has the power to save you, to get you through life. It's like breathing. You have to do it or you'll die. And when it's over, your soul starts to bleed. There's no pain in the world like it, I swear.

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

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

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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.

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