Susan Wiggs > Quotes

“You're never alone when you're reading a book.”
― Susan Wiggs

“She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.”
― Susan Wiggs, Summer by the Sea

“There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Goodbye Quilt

“She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Charm School

“at the center of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.”
― Susan Wiggs, The You I Never Knew

“When you're with the person you love, you're home.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Winter Lodge

“Here's the thing about broken hearts. You can always survive them. Always. No matter how deep the hurt, the capacity to heal and move on is even stronger.”
― Susan Wiggs, Summer at Willow Lake

“She was the living, breathing proof that the hard things in life didn't have to defeat you - or even define you.”
― Susan Wiggs, Summer by the Sea

“The time for falling in love was when you were emotionally available and free of cares, when it didn’t matter what time you came home or how late you were getting up the next day. When you had hours and hours to spend gazing into each other’s eyes and even longer hours making love, uninterrupted. If you wait for the perfect time to fall in love…it’ll never happen.”
― Susan Wiggs, Just Breathe

“I see the way he looks at you when you're not aware of his gaze. I see the way you care for him. And so when you think he wants you gone, it is not that. He is simply afraid to lose you.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lightkeeper

“Kids aren't supposed to have to figure out how to be happy. They just are.”
― Susan Wiggs, Summer at Willow Lake

“The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once.”
― Susan Wiggs, Just Breathe

“I know you got your heart broken but I know the heart can heal, too. And I know what it feels like to love again. I love you so much, I can’t sleep at night. Sometimes I forget to breathe. And in a hundred years, that’s never going to change.”
― Susan Wiggs, Just Breathe

“Sometimes if you want something badly enough, you make it happen through sheer force of will.”
― Susan Wiggs, Summer at Willow Lake

“There's a kind of love that has the power to save you, to get you through life. It's like breathing. You have to do it or you'll die. And when it's over, your soul starts to bleed, Livvy. There's no pain in the world like it, I swear. If you were feeling that now, you wouldn't be able to sit up straight or have a coherent conversation.”
― Susan Wiggs, Summer at Willow Lake

“If you're drowning for real, and nobody believes you, then you sure as hell better figure out how to swim.”
― Susan Wiggs, Summer at Willow Lake

“Pop, why didn't you ever marry again?"

"I was a good husband to your mother," Pop said. "I would not be a good husband to another woman. It would not be fair, because I gave everything I had to my first marriage. Love is like that for some people.”
― Susan Wiggs, Summer by the Sea

“It's best to know what your issues are before going ahead with a relationship.”
― Susan Wiggs, Summer by the Sea

“Love wasn't love if she had to try too hard to feel it.”
― Susan Wiggs, Summer at Willow Lake

“You always look on the dark side of life. I believe in capturing the moment...Joy is so fleeting. You never know when it might be snatched away.”
― Susan Wiggs, At the King's Command

“You are TSTL. I beg your pardon. Too stupid to live.”
― Susan Wiggs

“You’ll never be happy with what you want until you
can be happy with what you’ve got.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“No one had ever told them they might need each other one day, an for some reason, they hadn't figured it out themselves.”
― Susan Wiggs, Summer by the Sea

“She knew the soothing power of a human touch on aching flesh. Knew the strange bond that formed when two creatures united in mutual need, one hurting, the other healing.”
― Susan Wiggs, At the King's Command

“It is a great virtue to be needed. Greater, even, than being liked”
― Susan Wiggs, The Drifter

“..."books were alive in a special way. Between the covers, characters are living their lives, enacting their dramas, falling in and out of love...Even sitting closed on a shelf, a book had a life of its own. When someone opened the book, that was when the magic happened.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“Her name was a silent song on his lips. Her love was like a circle in the water, radiating ever outward, inevitably encompassing even the remotest of hearts.”
― Susan Wiggs, At the King's Command

“What's difficult to understand about German opera? It's always the same. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love, girl gets devoured by horrible winged creature with claws.”
― Susan Wiggs

“Listen—are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”
― Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop

“And if you don't believe memories are worth more than money, then perhaps you've not made the right kind of memories.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Apple Orchard