Quotes from Susan Wiggs

It's best to know what your issues are before going ahead with a relationship.

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.

Love wasn't love if she had to try too hard to feel it.

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.

You are TSTL. I beg your pardon. Too stupid to live.

You'll never be happy with what you want until you can be happy with what you've got.

No one had ever told them they might need each other one day, an for some reason, they hadn't figured it out themselves.

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.

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.

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

And if you don't believe memories are worth more than money, then perhaps you've not made the right kind of memories.

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.

She caught herself working so hard at mothering that she forgot to enjoy her children. -from ~Homecoming Season~

books were alive in a special way. Between the covers, characters are living their lives, enacting their dramas, falling in and out of love...Even sitting closed on a shelf, a book had a life of its own. When someone opened the book, that was when the magic happened.

She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.