When you only do what is expected of you, you never learn what you would've done had you chosen for yourself.
Susan MeissnerWe are born knowing how to be just. And we die knowing we spent a lifetime pretending we didn't.
Susan MeissnerI 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 MeissnerSometimes asking God for a reason for something is like asking Him why the sky is blue. There is a complex, scientific reason for it, Claire, but most children, including you, are content with knowing it is blue because it is. If we understood everything about everything, we would have no need for faith.
Susan MeissnerMots clés faith
You shouldn't imagine things that you haven't a shred of proof happened...
Susan MeissnerMots clés wisdom
We understand what we want to understand.
Susan MeissnerDissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.
Susan MeissnerI don't know very many people who can piece together eloquent prayers when their souls are wounded. Words don't come at those times, but tears do. I have always thought of my tears as prayers.
Susan MeissnerI think literature reveals more about us than history does.
Susan MeissnerWe moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.
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