Susan Crandall Quotes

#1. She slammed down the phone. The sharp bang shattered my heart like a bottle hitting the sidewalk

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#2. Some of the best things in life come when you're not planning on them. It's important to see them for the gift they are.

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#3. She leaned down so she was looking right in my eyes. You hear me, child. you can't use other folks' bad behavior to excuse your own. When we got a choice, we keep Jesus in our hearts and don't do nothing that would make him ashamed.

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#4. But I wasn't gonna be too scared to love the folks that took the time to love me back, and I sure wasn't gonna chase them that don't.

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#5. My mouth always worked a whole lot faster than my good sense.

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#6. Why ain't you mad?" I asked.
"Might as well get mad at the wind for blowin'. Some things just be what they be.

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#7. I wondered, what other gifts I got bottled up inside me? That question had started to gnaw on me some.

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#8. I wanted to say something to make her feel better, but I didn't know what words could have that much magic.

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#9. A body can't run from what they done. They carry it with them inside. It fester and spread like poison if it's buried. It gotta be out in the air where it can heal.

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#10. My daddy always said being brave wasn't not being scared. Being brave was keeping going when you were.

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#11. I knew how she felt, all jittered up inside and no place to put the aggravation.

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#12. One day that song stopped being on the outside of me and went deep inside. It was there all the time, especially when I was feeling particularly lonely.

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#13. Sometimes laughin' is all a body can do, child. It's laugh or lose your mind.

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#14. She grabbed me in a hug so ferocious, the love reached clean to my bones. She kissed the top of my head. Truth is, you save me, child. You save me as sure as the sun rises.

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#15. I had to hold on to the mad so the sad didn't drown me.

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#16. God's job ain't to make our lives easier, it's to make us better souls by the lessons He gives us.

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#17. I spent my whole life wantin' to take care of children. You a blessing, not a burden." She looked at me hard. "Don't you go forgettin' that." She patted my shoulder and left me alone. As I fell asleep, it come to me that that was the first time anybody had ever told me I was a blessing.

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#18. I wished I could take every course in the curriculum and read every book in the library. Sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else read the book, and track them down to talk about it.

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