The Nature of Fragile Things Quotes

“I don't think love is something you can start and stop by choosing. Our hearts tell us who we will love, and not the other way.”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“It is the nature of the earth to shift. It is the nature of fragile things to break. It is the nature of fire to burn.”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“It is the nature of the earth to shift. It is the nature of fragile things to break. It is the nature of fire to burn. And just as it is the nature of men and women to build, it is also in our nature to begin again after disaster. This I know, too.”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“Don’t borrow tomorrow’s burdens, my gram used to say.”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“It’s that sacred place where your soul is at rest because all the people you love most are there.”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“I don't think love is something you can start and stop by choosing. Our hearts tell us who we will love, noth teh other way”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“I’ve often wished I could turn back time and do things differently, but maybe it’s better to start anew than to go back in time and hope you have the courage and wisdom to make different choices.”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“I can’t imagine God keeping mothers from their children in that beautiful place,”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“have learned this is her way of coming to terms with events she cannot control. We all have to find a way to do that, don’t we?”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“When people are thrown into an abyss and together find their way out of it, they are not the same people. They are bound to one”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“I smiled at this because some days I feel as though I’ve already lived several lifetimes and others as though I haven’t lived any kind of life at all, that I’m still waiting for it to start. Or waiting for it to start over.”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“and that if she ever needs to talk to her or touch her, she need only go to Belinda’s peach tree and put her arms around it, and Candace will whisper to her through the branches that all is well.”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“Doesn’t love make a home? Doesn’t love make a family?”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“I find that I am also shedding tears of happiness and relief that something good can still happen in this upside-down world.”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“Backward glances are of no use to me now.”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“But you’ve reasons to keep living, Belinda. And even if you were able to convince yourself you don’t, the sun always comes up the next day. It does. And the next and the next. It just keeps coming up.”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“I realize at this moment that what she’s missing is not so much the house itself but something else, something a fire cannot touch. It’s that sacred place where your soul is at rest because all the people you love most are there.”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“I don’t think love is something you can start and stop by choosing. Our hearts tell us who we will love, not the other way.”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“Every step toward the ramp to the pier is taking me farther away from who I am and closer to who I am going to be. As”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“When people are thrown into an abyss and together find their way out of it, they are not the same people. They are bound to one another ever after, linked together at the core of who they are because it was together that they escaped a terrible fate.”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“I think I understand why Libby would like me to return to San Francisco. I am the kind of friend to whom she can count on feeling sweetly superior. Her affluent friends probably make her too often fear that she doesn’t quite measure up. But not me.”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“I suppose some people simply need to see what could have happened to them but didn’t, and to have a visual reminder of it.”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“don’t think love is something you can start and stop by choosing. Our hearts tell us who we will love, not the other way.”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“I believe in justice too but I know that sometimes it is not delivered in the way it should be. Sometimes it is not delivered at all and the evil man walks free.”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“I don't think love is something you can start and stop by choosing. Our hearts tell us who we will love, not the other way.”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“When people are thrown into the abyss and together find their way out of it, they are not the same people.”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“The day will end jubilant. Jubilant.”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“The sun is dissolving like an enchantment”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“incredulous. I decide in that moment to tell her the barest minimum.”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things

“I think we need to carefully plan what”
― Susan Meissner, The Nature of Fragile Things