Only the Beautiful Quotes

“This kind of thinking, that one person can say he or she is a better human than another, is not only cruel, it is dangerous.”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“How we treat one another is what we are still able to do something about.”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“An amaryllis is always waiting to delight and surprise you, even when your world seems cold and dark.”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“A book is always in many places at once. That is its singular wonder. A book takes one voice speaking and makes it many. A book can shine far brighter and longer than I ever could on my own.”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“People will always distrust what they don’t understand. And what they distrust, they cannot love.”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“Deviance is woven into the fabric of a person’s genes, as is intelligence and moral fortitude. I would ask you how”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“With giving, there is cost, isn’t there? There is always cost. Sometimes it is an easy sum to hand over. And sometimes it exacts from you the whole measure of your heart.”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“Who defines what is weakness? I’d wondered. Isn’t it only the strong who get to decide that? Isn’t it only the strong who have the power to act on what they decide? How can that be right or fair or good?”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“This is what makes us sublimely human, isn’t it? Not unsullied genetic perfection, but when we stubbornly love and honor one another.”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“People will always distrust what they don’t understand.”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“People will always distrust what they don’t understand. And what they distrust, they cannot”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“Power like that can’t be stopped,” and my own voice saying back to him, “Of course it can.” It can. It is stopped. All the time. Not with a magic wand or hopeful thoughts or wishful thinking or mere words, but with courage and resolve and the refusal to allow those without voices to remain unheard. This is what makes us sublimely human, isn’t it? Not unsullied genetic perfection, but when we stubbornly love and honor one another. Just the way we are.”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“I’ve always loved an amaryllis at Christmastime. It blooms in winter because it believes it is spring. After the first of the year, pull the bulb from the dirt. Keep it cool and dry, like in the barn or barrel room. Next year, if you repot it in November, it will bloom for you again at the holidays. Just like it is blooming now. An amaryllis is always waiting to delight and surprise you, even when your world seems cold and dark.”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“This is what makes us sublimely human, isn’t it? Not unsullied genetic perfection, but when we stubbornly love and honor one another. Just the way we are.”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“The 1927 Supreme Court ruling that allowed Carrie Buck to be forcibly sterilized gave every state the green light to continue or begin sterilizing those deemed unfit to produce children, all in the name of “race betterment.”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“with courage and resolve and the refusal to allow those without voices to remain unheard.”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“sublimely human, isn’t it? Not unsullied genetic”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“killing disabled people in the name of mercy.”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“The gaping unknown”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“monkey child, Captain Maier, and get back to”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“Liebling,”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“wishing I could go back in time and”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“I had what my own life hadn’t given me.”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“The sun every morning, the cloisonné pendant, the silver key, Helen Calvert’s letter on how to care for an amaryllis, and the bargain I made.”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“Air is free. Someday I will be, too, though not soon enough. There doesn’t”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“Nothing but love, and in this world, love isn’t enough.”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“little thing, and what a promise it was making. I would in fact need the money, and he should”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“still have my colors. Surely a new kind of happiness is still within reach.”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“floating away from me like a cloud on the wind.”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful

“children, as they grow, learn about the world and their place in it by testing what they know and experimenting with what they don’t.”
― Susan Meissner, Only the Beautiful