Susan Patron Quotes

#1. ...[T]hese people... are my dangerous accusers; because those who hear them suppose that anyone who inquires into such matters... theories about the heavens... and everything below the earth... must be an atheist.

Socrates

#2. Some aspects of life are strange or even terrible, but later something okay or even good happens that would never have happened without the bad/strange thing.
The Higher Power of Lucky

Susan Patron

#3. Boldness is a mask of fear, however so great

Susan Patron

#4. I was made for action movies.

Asia Argento

#5. It made her feel discouraged, like if you took the word apart into two sections of dis and couraged. It was getting harder and harder to stay couraged.

Susan Patron

#6. Lydia finally found it in herself to forgive her mother for seizing what small joy she could, whatever the consequences. Love, it seemed, had its own imperatives.

Anna Campbell

#7. It was like the moment before you open a present, still hidden inside its box and wrappings; while you're waiting to find out what it is, the eagerness and impatience and curiosity and anticipation grip you in an even stronger, more thrilling way than you feel after you find out what's inside.

Susan Patron

#8. I knew so much shit and I still couldn't fix myself.

Graeme Simsion

#9. Lucky discovered that laughing was like crying in the sense that sometimes you cannot stop. And it's a catching disease, because when another person is spurting and gasping it makes you start again even after you have taken deep gulps of air and stopped looking at the other laughing person.

Susan Patron

#10. The whole world is full of danger. But also it is full of beauty and courage and many wonders.

Susan Patron

#11. Sometimes what wishes do ... especially the big, big wishes, is churn up all the confusion and longing that sloshes around forever inside of you.

Susan Patron

#12. The future does not happen just by chance.

Susan Patron

#13. Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to the inner world of the story as I can make them.

Susan Patron

#14. Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.

Moliere

#15. In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.

Chuck Schumer

#16. When you are sad, your heart pumps the tragedy all through your body and fills your mind with the story of your suffering, and you tell that story to yourself over and over.

Susan Patron

#17. And even if you carry a survival kit around with you at all times, it won't guarantee you'll survive. No kit in the world can protect you from all the possible bad things.

Susan Patron

#18. Sometimes we get this great gift, man, and we just take it for granted. We only figure it out, how much we lost, when it's gone.
- Short Sammy

Susan Patron

#19. Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in.

H.R. Haldeman

#20. It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out of chips and diet cokes.

Anne Lamott

#21. If he (Teddy Roosevelt) lacked Will Taft's immediate charisma, gradually his classmates could not resist the spell of his highly original personality.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#22. Nothing's lost forever.

Tony Kushner

#23. It is just as often the case, however, that men are violent solely from expedience, because they believe in no higher law than the demands of the moment,

David Bentley Hart

#24. Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles on our cakes.

Susan Patron

#25. Jason smiled and took a sip of his coke before responding. I'm not sure how to reply to that. I thought about just giving you a nasty look. But I see you already have one.

Mark A. Cooper

#26. Because sometimes Lucky wanted to change everything, all the bad things that had happened, and sometimes she wanted everything to stay the same forever.

Susan Patron

#27. Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

Anita Brookner

#28. It had long been accepted that if a species put mankind on its food-chain menu the species would be extinct before long.

Dan Simmons