Suzanne Kelman > Suzanne's Quotes

“I soon forgot about my bedraggled appearance. Until, that is, an old man shuffled in and propped himself, hunched and wheezing, over the check-in desk. Karen asked him if he needed assistance.
“No,” he grunted sucking on his teeth, “your wet-T-shirt librarian with the punk rock hair is helping me out just fine.”
― Suzanne Kelman, The Rejected Writers' Book Club

“She was a fascinating character, to say the least. A pioneer and instigator of many weird and wooly projects and who liked to “instigate” you right along with her. Every village has one, and Doris was ours. A lively individual who was always throwing herself into some harebrained scheme or other, taking no prisoners as she pulled you into her wild world of wackiness. Doris’s “urgent” could mean anything from the need to raise money for lame goats to singing at the top of a living Christmas tree.”
― Suzanne Kelman, The Rejected Writers' Book Club

“The ‘coons had enjoyed a real party, and my trashcan had been the piñata! They’d obviously indulged in an evening of feasting on our wares and then staggered off the property loaded up with our birdseed as a little take-home gift!”
― Suzanne Kelman, The Rejected Writers' Book Club

“The face that greeted me, however, was far from welcoming, it was a miniature stick insect of a woman with wiry white hair and enormous glasses that emphasized her heavily wrinkled face. She blinked twice and looked me up and down. By the look on her face, she wasn’t that impressed with what she saw. “Who is it, Ethel?”
She responded, “It’s some homeless woman. She looks like she needs money and a good wash.”
And I thought I’d already reached the lowest point of my day.”
― Suzanne Kelman, The Rejected Writers' Book Club

“One doesn't know how brave one is until the cost outweighs the fear.”
― Suzanne Kelman, A View Across the Rooftops

“Sometimes the most courageous love is whispered in the quietest moments.”
― Suzanne Kelman, A View Across the Rooftops

“There was something so wrong about war, something so horrific and soul-destroying that she hadn't ever contemplated, until now, as the senseless loss of life crushed her. On one side you were crippled by it; on the other side you were the perpetrator of it. There were no winners”
― Suzanne Kelman, A View Across the Rooftops

“Even the weeping willow grows upward.”
― Suzanne Kelman, Garden of Secrets

“The darker the night, the brighter we shine”
― Suzanne Kelman, Under a Sky on Fire

“Far off, palm trees swayed in the bay, illuminated by shafts of silvery light from a ripened moon. A breeze rippled the water's surface, disappearing into a shimmery puddle that skimmed the top of the beach. As the water breathed out frothy waves, it nudged at the sand gently. It appeared to be trying not to wake it.”
― Suzanne Kelman, When the Nightingale Sings

“If she had learned anything in her eighty-five years, it was that friendships forged in the fire were the hardest to extinguish. They were the ones seared into your being, melded to your heart, a forever charred part of your soul.”
― Suzanne Kelman, When the Nightingale Sings