#susanmeissner

[many-musings]

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

[chasingpagesquotes]

The person who completes your life is not so much the person who shares all the years of your existence, but rather the person who made your life worth living, no matter how long or short a time you were given to spend with them

Susan Meissner, A Fall of Marigolds 

[chasingpagesquotes]

Love was both the softest edge and the sharpest edge of what made life real.

Susan Meissner, A Fall of Marigolds 

[chasingpagesquotes]

People who say everything happens for a reason usually say that only when they agree with the reason.

Susan Meissner, A Fall of Marigolds 

[chasingpagesquotes]

My sister, Henrietta, would likely never leave Pennsylvania. She had married there and was having babies there and would rock her grandchildren there. Nothing surprising ever happened to her and this suited her. To her, there was only one shade to every color. This was the difference between us. She was happy with the one shade. I had always been drawn to color. Always. The more vibrant or intense or deep or unique, the better.

Susan Meissner, A Fall of Marigolds 

[chasingpagesquotes]

I was not afraid of fire. I was in dreadful awe of how everything you were sure of could be swept away in a moment.

Susan Meissner, A Fall of Marigolds 

[chasingpagesquotes]

For ten years I'd been able to crouch in between reality and regret and pretend neither had any influence on me, never moving forward, never moving backward.

Susan Meissner, A Fall of Marigolds 

[chasingpagesquotes]

Everything beautiful has a story it wants to tell. But not every story is beautiful.

Susan Meissner, A Fall of Marigolds