Susan > Susan's Quotes

“See how community is only a good thing when you're a part of it.”
― Sara Baume

“Forgetting is a kind of betrayal, even if it’s what happens to all grief. Time wears everything smoother as it grinds past, I suppose.”
― C.A. Fletcher, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

“But the thing about maybes is that you can get lost in them and end up going nowhere.”
― C.A. Fletcher, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

“With so many marvels around you, did you stop seeing some of them?”
― C.A. Fletcher, A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World

“Some things come on you too fast for you to understand them when they’re happening. And when you try to understand them afterwards you put them together any way you can, but you get it wrong.”
― M.R. Carey, The Book of Koli

“And what you got to do when the future comes is open your arms to it. For that’s where life is, and if you look for it anywhere else, you’re gonna come home empty-handed.”
― M.R. Carey, The Book of Koli

“there’s other things that only come to make sense a long time after they’re done with.”
― M.R. Carey, The Book of Koli

“It never stops amazing me how a story can deliver you out of your own self, even in the worst of times.”
― M.R. Carey, The Book of Koli

“Well, there’s something called the law of unintended consequences. I don’t think it’s really a law, but people do a lot of things that seem smart at the time and then turn out to be terrible mistakes.”
― M.R. Carey, The Book of Koli

“The internet is just one big venue for anyone to say anything to anybody—without personal consequences.”
― Jen Lancaster, Welcome to the United States of Anxiety: Observations from a Reforming Neurotic

“When your body becomes accustomed to a chronic state of anxiety, the positive physiological changes that happen after good news can, paradoxically, trigger the sense that something isn’t right—simply because you’re not used to feeling good.”
― Jen Lancaster, Welcome to the United States of Anxiety: Observations from a Reforming Neurotic

“Every time there’s an incident, there’s a barrage of misinformation, and suddenly some asshole from my high school who dropped out of junior college considers himself a constitutional scholar.”
― Jen Lancaster, Welcome to the United States of Anxiety: Observations from a Reforming Neurotic

“Has no one suggested we lock Congress in the employee breakroom and not let them out until they can be nice and find a way to work with each other?”
― Jen Lancaster, Welcome to the United States of Anxiety: Observations from a Reforming Neurotic

“Mine was an era of children having to accommodate, rather than being accommodated. No parents put their children’s tastes and proclivities first. That’s a relatively new development.”
― Jen Lancaster, Welcome to the United States of Anxiety: Observations from a Reforming Neurotic

“There can't be any rules in the telling of stories...as to the happiness or sadness of it, that depends where you're standing.”
― M.R. Carey, The Trials of Koli

“But you can be led into believing a thing just by wanting it too much.”
― M.R. Carey, The Trials of Koli

“There is a game that old people play that is really no game at all. They look at how the world is now, and remember how it was, and those two things come more and more to seem like a hell and a heaven.”
― M.R. Carey, The Trials of Koli

“Sleep is gonna come. It always does but so do rememberings. Sometimes they take me places I don't want to go. Sometimes they take me places I don't want to leave.”
― Leah Weiss, If the Creek Don't Rise

“I don't believe or disbelieve in your god or your devil. I simply have little use for church dogmas and man-made rituals that stifle people through fear and superstition.”
― Leah Weiss, If the Creek Don't Rise

“Animals can tear your heart out. They can maim you. They can kill you dead on instinct alone and saunter into the next minute like it was nothing. But at least you know the ground rules with animals. You can count the cost of breaking the rules. You never know with people. Even the good can hurt you bad, and the bad, well, they’re going to hurt you but good.”
― Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes

“The land you grow up in is a forever thing, remembered when all else is forgotten, whether it did you right or did you wrong.”
― Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes

“The thing about knowing you're doing something for the last time is that it takes the joy right out of it.”
― Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes

“Time heals all wounds they say. I'm here to tell you that time can wound you all on its own.”
― Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes

“Sometimes one does not learn the value of things until they are lost.”
― Robert Silverberg, Nightwings

“You see the difficulty of believing in a divine force that determines all events? Where is the element of choice that makes suffering meaningful? To force you into a sin, and then to require you to endure defeat as atonement, seems to me an empty exercise.”
― Robert Silverberg, Nightwings

“Neighborhoods dominated by brick buildings and corner stores and baseball in the street were wiped away and replaced by vast and anonymous apartments. Grand homes torn down to make way for low duplexes with few windows and no porches.”
― Eric Barnes, The City Where We Once Lived

“It’s not that I have ever been taught how to fight. It’s not that I have trained for this. It’s not that I am very strong. I simply have a willingness to hurt this person who’s done something wrong.”
― Eric Barnes, The City Where We Once Lived

“Really, we just want our lives back. We want things to be how they once were.”
― Eric Barnes, The City Where We Once Lived

“The violence. Hitting someone. It’s not the hurting. It’s the power. The control you think you have.”
― Eric Barnes, The City Where We Once Lived

“People with power resent losing it, and too much power for too long a time can make a villain of anyone.”
― Hannah F. Whitten, For the Wolf