Susan Patron > Quotes

“Because sometimes Lucky wanted to change everything, all the bad things that had happened, and sometimes she wanted everything to stay the same forever.”
― Susan Patron, The Higher Power of Lucky

“When you are sad, your heart pumps the tragedy all through your body and fills your mind with the story of your suffering, and you tell that story to yourself over and over.”
― Susan Patron, Lucky Breaks

“It made her feel discouraged, like if you took the word apart into two sections of dis and couraged. It was getting harder and harder to stay couraged.”
― Susan Patron, The Higher Power of Lucky

“Sometimes we get this great gift, man, and we just take it for granted. We only figure it out, how much we lost, when it's gone.

—Short Sammy”
― Susan Patron, Lucky Breaks

“Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles on our cakes.”
― Susan Patron, Lucky Breaks

“Lucky discovered that laughing was like crying in the sense that sometimes you cannot stop. And it's a catching disease, because when another person is spurting and gasping it makes you start again even after you have taken deep gulps of air and stopped looking at the other laughing person.”
― Susan Patron

“The whole world is full of danger. But also it is full of beauty and courage and many wonders.”
― Susan Patron, Lucky Breaks

“Sometimes what wishes do...especially the big, big wishes, is churn up all the confusion and longing that sloshes around forever inside of you.”
― Susan Patron, Lucky Breaks

“The future does not happen just by chance.”
― Susan Patron, Lucky Breaks

“Some aspects of life are strange or even terrible, but later something okay or even good happens that would never have happened without the bad/strange thing. -- "The Higher Power of Lucky”
― Susan Patron

“Boldness is a mask of fear, however so great”
― Susan Patron, Behind the Masks: The Diary of Angeline Reddy, Bodie, California, 1880

“Pixy Stix comfort you when you are in a sad or desperate situation, and it is always good to have some on hand.”
― Susan Patron, Lucky Breaks

“It was like the moment before you open a present, still hidden inside its box and wrappings; while you're waiting to find out what it is, the eagerness and impatience and curiosity and anticipation grip you in an even stronger, more thrilling way than you feel after you find out what's inside.”
― Susan Patron, Lucky for Good

“It is not comfortable or easy to sit in a principal's office, waiting for a verdict.”
― Susan Patron, Lucky for Good

“Tears came welling up behind her eyes for a second, then they went back inside for some other time, a sad time. A certain crevice of Lucky’s mind wondered if there is some kind of reservoir for tears where they are stored, because sometimes there are so many of them, pouring and pouring out.”
― Susan Patron, The Higher Power of Lucky

“Sometimes we get this great gift, man, and we just take it for granted. We only figure it out, how much we lost, when it's gone.”
― Susan Patron, Lucky Breaks

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― Susan Patron, Behind the Masks: The Diary of Angeline Reddy, Bodie, California, 1880