Don't Be a Stranger Quotes

“Why did you have to have the wits scared out of you to feel sharp, to be content with being alive?

People, she saw, were brave and good and kind. She saw life was more astonishing and radiant than she'd imagined it, and she'd spent a lot of time imagining. Out in the hall she heard a bed rolling by. She was not aware of when she fell asleep; we never are.”
― Susan Minot, Don't Be a Stranger

“He who binds himself to a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sunrise.”
― Susan Minot, Don't Be a Stranger