The Girl in the Glass Quotes

“You don’t realize how small your world is when you are a child. Your parents are your east and west, your sun and moon.”
― Susan Meissner, The Girl in the Glass

“Music is the language of the soul. Music captures our prayers and hopes and joys—and yes, our sorrows—and gives them voice, just as the paintings and the statues give them dimension.”
― Susan Meissner, The Girl in the Glass

“hills in the distance—beyond the tiny coastal city and the boats in the water that everyone in a hurry misses—represent all that is beyond the moment in time when the angel told the Virgin she would bear the Savior of the world. That is the vanishing point. Without it, there would be no sense that this moment is a slice of time.”
― Susan Meissner, The Girl in the Glass

“what we see is not always what is. And what is, we often cannot see until we train our eyes to see it.”
― Susan Meissner, The Girl in the Glass

“Shut your eyes to the world of pain, and you also shut your eyes to the world of delight.”
― Susan Meissner, The Girl in the Glass

“What's there to remember if not the good things?”
― Susan Meissner, The Girl in the Glass

“Remembering what you want about the past, even if it’s not entirely true, keeps you from giving up on the present.”
― Susan Meissner, The Girl in the Glass

“When we trust someone, we believe what they tell us is true. We experience it as being true. It's not the experience itself that empowers us to believe it. It is the trust.”
― Susan Meissner, The Girl in the Glass

“When we trust someone, we believe what they tell us is true. We experience it as being true. It’s not the experience itself that empowers us to believe it. It is the trust.”
― Susan Meissner, The Girl in the Glass

“when God gave the world the Renaissance artists, He gave us artistic genius the likes of which have not been seen since. Renaissance is a French word with a lovely meaning. It means to be reborn. It is a word with hope infused in every letter. It assures us that what has fallen into pieces can be made whole, what has sagged into ugliness can be made beautiful again, what has died can have life breathed into it once more.”
― Susan Meissner, The Girl in the Glass

“My grandmother told me heaven’s rules don’t just tell us what to do and not do,” I said. “They tell us what God is like. People searching for God only need to look at what God says is important. I think love is important to Him. So there are rules about it. Not to make us feel bad about how far we fall short, but to show us how wonderful the real thing is.”
― Susan Meissner, The Girl in the Glass

“War can come any way. If we let it. If we invite it. Not on land with horses and swords. But in our houses. In our bedrooms. In our hearts.”
― Susan Meissner, The Girl in the Glass

“I don’t see how you can live in a black and white world without becoming…uncreative. You can’t make anything new. Everything already is what it is.”
― Susan Meissner, The Girl in the Glass

“There is a calming aura at the ocean’s edge, despite the frothing foam, crashing waves and roaring white noise. The ocean looks the same on your good days and your bad days. Nice to know on the worse of days that there are few things you can utterly count on. P. 107”
― Susan Meissner, The Girl in the Glass