Welcome to Beach Town Quotes

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
― Susan Wiggs, Welcome to Beach Town

“There’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.”
― Susan Wiggs, Welcome to Beach Town

“too. Being able to help is a gift. It helped me through terrible”
― Susan Wiggs, Welcome to Beach Town

“If everyone put their problems in a pile on the floor, you’d end up picking yours back up because it was probably the smallest pile in the first place.”
― Susan Wiggs, Welcome to Beach Town

“The ocean was not just her refuge; it was her teacher. So many important lessons she’d learned in life had been taught to her by the sea—power, respect, humility, awe, vigilance, patience, timing, rhythm.”
― Susan Wiggs, Welcome to Beach Town

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― Susan Wiggs, Welcome to Beach Town

“God is in the details.”
― Susan Wiggs, Welcome to Beach Town

“You lost yourself in a magnificent love, and that was a blessing some of us never get to experience. And now, you owe it to yourself to find a new way to be happy. Starting now. Think about the life you can have. You can’t live in heartbreak forever.”
― Susan Wiggs, Welcome to Beach Town

“she told Patsy about the midnight panics, the emotional roller coaster ride that wouldn’t stop, the fiery ache in her solar plexus that made it hard to breathe.”
― Susan Wiggs, Welcome to Beach Town

“The reading Nikki had done about grief told her to expect a barrage of emotions. She was advised to seek support, to feel her feelings, and keep moving forward with her life to a place of acceptance.”
― Susan Wiggs, Welcome to Beach Town

“He worked hard. We both did. He meant to catch up on the bills. He tried to protect me from knowing exactly how broke we were.” “You married a clone of me,” Guy pointed out. She shrugged her shoulders. “People marry their issues.”
― Susan Wiggs, Welcome to Beach Town

“You’re dead tired,” her dad said. “You need to sleep some more.” “Yes. I can’t even tell you what day it is.” “It’s the first day of the rest of your life,” he said, “to coin a phrase.”
― Susan Wiggs, Welcome to Beach Town

“She could be their classmate. Their teammate. Their lab partner. Some, like Mark, might even call her their friend. But she would never truly belong.”
― Susan Wiggs, Welcome to Beach Town

“she was as ordinary as a box of cereal, so the only currency she possessed was to be outstanding whenever possible.”
― Susan Wiggs, Welcome to Beach Town

“The landscape might not change, but you change. Your perceptions. Your emotions. Your place in life.”
― Susan Wiggs, Welcome to Beach Town

“A person can only see something through her own filter,”
― Susan Wiggs, Welcome to Beach Town

“Rich people have a way of not getting in trouble in this county.”
― Susan Wiggs, Welcome to Beach Town

“Miss Carmella says never be anyone’s shadow, or you’ll miss the sunlight,”
― Susan Wiggs, Welcome to Beach Town

“They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. —Plato, The Republic, c. 380 b.c.”
― Susan Wiggs, Welcome to Beach Town

“I wish I could have just one more moment with you, just to make sure you knew how much you meant to me. You brought joy to my world,”
― Susan Wiggs, Welcome to Beach Town

“And now, you owe it to yourself to find a new way to be happy. Starting now. Think about the life you can have. You can’t live in heartbreak forever.”
― Susan Wiggs, Welcome to Beach Town

“We both lost our person,” she said quietly. “What are the chances?” The gaping hole of grief yawned wide again. “There’s a part of me that will never be okay,” her dad said. “I figure there’s a part of you that will never be okay. But after a while you get better at coping. You go on.”
― Susan Wiggs, Welcome to Beach Town

“she built her Frito pie the way she always had, with a layer of chips, chili, cheese, sour cream, and onions. The taste of the hot,”
― Susan Wiggs, Welcome to Beach Town

“Love doesn’t stop when you lose someone,” Carmella said. “And you don’t want it to. Wrap your heart around the memories, honey, and keep him alive within you.” “It’s not the same.” “I know. But it’s all you have, and it’ll have to do.”
― Susan Wiggs, Welcome to Beach Town

“You don’t have to prove anything to anyone but yourself.” “That is not compatible with life in high school.”
― Susan Wiggs, Welcome to Beach Town

“Love doesn’t stop when you lose someone,” Carmella said. “And you don’t want it to. Wrap your heart around the memories, honey, and keep him alive within you.”
― Susan Wiggs, Welcome to Beach Town

“The cure for anything is salt water—sweat, tears, or the salt sea. —Isak Dinesen”
― Susan Wiggs, Welcome to Beach Town