Top 100 Susan Wiggs Quotes
#1. Love wasn't a selfish thing. It was the kindest, most generous impulse a man could have.
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#2. Think about kissing boys all the time. Me and all my friends. We even practice making out with our pillows.
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#3. Rourke was the Grim Reaper with a hard-on.
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#5. If you're drowning for real, and nobody believes you, then you sure as hell better figure out how to swim.
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#6. 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.
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#7. one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer - and the other seven will know her.
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#8. I see the way he looks at you when you're not aware of his gaze. I see the way you care for him. And so when you think he wants you gone, it is not that. He is simply afraid to lose you.
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#9. What is home? Maybe it's not a place, but a moment in time. When I was safe. Secure. Cared for. Home. It's more than a point on a map. It's a sensation. A feeling of comfort - feet
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#10. You have seven writers in your basement?"
Donald nods, signing, "They like it here. There's a poet, a couple of novelists, an opera librettist, an essay writer ... They don't usually make much trouble.
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#11. Hearts would have to break and be mended, truths would be revealed, risks would be taken. Which, when he thought about it, was simply the way life worked - messy, unpredictable, joyous, mysterious, hurtful and redemptive.
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#12. To Sonnet, wearing castoff clothing was just another way to make her different from the other kids at school. As if she needed one more thing to make her different.
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#13. In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have always been drawn to the novels of Edith Wharton, among others, where social dynamics are crucial. Wharton's class consciousness fascinates me, and some of the tension in my books stems from that.
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#14. Unexpected change is like a breath of fresh air
a little brisk at first, but magic for the body and soul.
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#15. The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once.
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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. I love my life, my family and my friends, and I'm drawn to 'relationship' novels because of their affirming focus on the power of love to heal wounds and transform lives.
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#19. Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said, "America's greatest contribution to the world is the summer camp." Anyone
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#20. 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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#21. There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.
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#22. What I've found is that you make time for the things that matter to you. Everyone has the time. It's just a question of deciding what to do with that time.
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#23. She knew the soothing power of a human touch on aching flesh. Knew the strange bond that formed when two creatures united in mutual need, one hurting, the other healing.
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#24. she opened the lid and was hit with a musty smell she could immediately put a name to: camp. It was an unforgettable combination of mildew, wood smoke and outdoors, an essence that resisted laundering and airing out.
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#25. That if you never get your hopes up," she said, taking a sip of hot chocolate, "you'll never be disappointed." "Ouch,
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#26. You're right. I have no heart because I lost it to you.
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#27. I lived in upstate New York until I was ten years old and we moved overseas. I have a lot of nostalgic memories of that part of the world, and I love going back there by writing the Lakeshore books.
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#28. Everybody's in love when they're eighteen. And everybody gets dumped.
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#29. You're never alone when you're reading a book.
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#30. Nobody can fix another person. But everybody tries.
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#32. 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
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#33. And if you don't believe memories are worth more than money, then perhaps you've not made the right kind of memories.
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#34. No more taking the Lord's name in vain or even in earnest.
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#35. Maybe you're not meant to remember the details. Just the feelings. Just the lessons. Just the love.
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#36. louche, wearing a gauzy neck scarf and
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#37. When you're with the person you love, you're home.
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#38. Scary thought - what if I get to know myself and I'm someone I don't want to be?
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#40. He could look out the window and see nothing but deep snow and deep woods, the perfect picture for Christmas.
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#41. 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.
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#42. There was something in the way a man held a woman when he was about to let her go.
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#43. Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.
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#44. It's best to know what your issues are before going ahead with a relationship.
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#45. A fawn eats the equivalent of its body weight every twenty-four hours." "How do you know that?" "Read it in a book. I read sixty books last year." "Geez," he said. "Why?" "'Cause there wasn't time to read more," she said with a superior sniff. "Hard
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#46. 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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#47. Love wasn't love if she had to try too hard to feel it.
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#48. One afternoon, she went to Washington Square
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#49. She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~
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#50. Here's the thing about broken hearts. You can always survive them. Always. No matter how deep the hurt, the capacity to heal and move on is even stronger.
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#51. Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.
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#52. Caitlin, I was born to worry about you.
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#53. 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.
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#54. We often destroy the world's real wealth to create an illusion of wealth, confusing symbol and substance.
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#55. It's funny how much influence our parents have on us." "True.
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#57. Wake up & Smell The Hot Chocolate ! ~ Eddie Havens
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#58. There was something elemental and, all right, fundamentally sexy, about a guy building a fire for a woman. Maybe it went back to caveman times. She felt a natural attraction to a man with the instinct to make a fire for her.
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#60. Pop, why didn't you ever marry again?"
"I was a good husband to your mother," Pop said. "I would not be a good husband to another woman. It would not be fair, because I gave everything I had to my first marriage. Love is like that for some people.
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#61. Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man's ignorance.
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#62. 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.
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#63. Having a Mac all to himself was pretty amazing.
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#64. Honestly, the essence of publishing hasn't changed. Since the days of the cave man carving stuff on the cave walls, people have wanted stories, and storytellers have wanted an audience. That is still the case. The changes are really a matter of format.
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#65. During the post-breakdown period, she read books the way an addict swallowed pills. She devoured stories one after the other, trying not to let reality intrude too deeply.
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#66. And that refuge was the most reliable place of all - between the pages of a book.
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#67. Acting was all about making yourself feel things-love,rage,euphoria,agony. She had to unlearn those things now. She had to teach herself not to feel. Refusing to feel hurt also meant she numbed herself to joy, but the sacrifice was worth it.
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#68. The main boy - the one who was calling the shots - pushed
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#69. 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.
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#70. It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked
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#72. Sometimes if you want something badly enough, you make it happen through sheer force of will.
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#73. I came here to conquer you. And here I stay, a willing prisoner of your heart.
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#74. I would forfeit the very surety of my soul to be the man who brings that look upon your face.
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#75. Kids aren't supposed to have to figure out how to be happy. They just are.
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#76. I never felt I was incapable of succeeding because I felt confident I could always learn what I needed to know.
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#77. Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.
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#78. She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.
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#79. On Sunday, something washed up on shore.
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#80. San Francisco was her favorite. It was the kind of city where being independent was valued, not pitied or regarded as a problem to be rectified by well-meaning friends.
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#81. I love you Daddy.
How hard was that to say Why hadn't she said it before Because she wasn't sure she meant it or was she afraid it would be one-sided
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#82. No, this was the kind of moment that made everything stop. You separated it from every other one, pressing the feeling to your heart, like a dried flower slipped between the pages of a beloved book. The moment was made of something fragile and delicate, yet it possessed the power to last forever.
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#83. She had always been good at dreaming, but what she had never done before was believe a dream could actually come true. She believed now. The wonder of setting sail created possibilities she had never considered before.
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#84. No creature should ever be trapped against its will," she used to say. "It will ruin itself, just trying to escape.
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#85. 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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#86. Tell the story that's in your heart, and don't hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.
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#88. Her name was a silent song on his lips. Her love was like a circle in the water, radiating ever outward, inevitably encompassing even the remotest of hearts.
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#90. Dreams changed a person, and there was a little danger in that, because having a powerful dream made you vulnerable to failure and disappointment.
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#91. Another thing Gran would say was imprinted on Annie's heart - remember the love. When times get hard and you start wondering why you got married in the first place, remember the love.
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#92. Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. - Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846 - 1916), American essayist
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#93. Opening a book was like opening a door to another world, and once she stepped across the threshold, she was transported. When she was reading a story, she lived inside a different skin. She
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#94. You are TSTL. I beg your pardon. Too stupid to live.
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#95. Oh, aye. A bit of mist in the air might bring the selkies out to play. The selkies are seal people, you know.
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#96. the main character saying things like "In my world, chocolate is a vegetable.
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#97. I know you got your heart broken but I know the heart can heal, too. And I know what it feels like to love again. I love you so much, I can't sleep at night. Sometimes I forget to breathe. And in a hundred years, that's never going to change.
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#98. I've always loved writing emotionally rich, character-driven novels that explore the way people fall in love and deal with life's triumphs and tragedies. I enjoy writing the contemporary and historical books equally, though perhaps 'enjoy' is the wrong word.
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#99. Just being a good person doesn't necessarily entitle you to a good life.
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#100. At the center of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.
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