Susan Schoenberger > Quotes

“ignore all the aggravation that life throws your way, because none of it means anything in the end.”
― Susan Schoenberger, A Watershed Year

“The hollow places in her soul felt less hollow because she had been useful to a remarkable spirit whose every breath—as forced as it was—mattered.”
― Susan Schoenberger, The Virtues of Oxygen

“Euripides better. He said, ‘The way of God is complex, He is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.”
― Susan Schoenberger, A Watershed Year

“All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.”
― Susan Schoenberger, A Watershed Year

“Portia was the one to finally ask the question Holly knew”
― Susan Schoenberger, The Virtues of Oxygen

“But that just proves that love is primarily a mental connection. What we truly crave—at least from what I understand of it—is a reflection of ourselves. People can’t walk around with a mirror in front of their faces all day, so they seek out someone who reflects back their own self-worth. Love, when you think about it, is a value proposition, much like the stock market, which is probably why I never quite gave up on it.”
― Susan Schoenberger, The Virtues of Oxygen

“Remember when we were idealistic young journalists who thought we could make the world a better place? We wanted to chase out corrupt politicians and uncover fraud and investigate murders. It turns out we were just filling space around the ads, and nobody really cared that much about what we wrote.”
― Susan Schoenberger, The Virtues of Oxygen

“You don’t just take what you can get when you’re young and able-bodied and reasonably intelligent. You set lofty goals, climb the ladder, fighting for every step. You scoot up to the wall between the sane and the insane and at least look over. Does anyone have an excuse to live an ordinary life? Not when you have all the resources you need to succeed. Not when it’s just about motivation.”
― Susan Schoenberger, The Virtues of Oxygen

“Bartlebysnopes.com”
― Susan Schoenberger, The Virtues of Oxygen

“There were times when Lucy felt almost transparent, insubstantial, as though her body would offer no resistance if the wind chose to lift her into the sky. At such times, she wished she had a small brick house to call her own, something earthbound and solid that could keep her from getting swept away like the seeds of a dandelion.”
― Susan Schoenberger, A Watershed Year

“her”
― Susan Schoenberger, A Watershed Year

“But she questioned the obligation of happiness. Was there some ratio out there, some secret happiness-to-misery index by which everyone else measured their life and decided whether or not it was worth living?”
― Susan Schoenberger, A Watershed Year

“It’s a little-known fact, but stress is actually absorbed by fat cells. It gets diluted.”
― Susan Schoenberger, A Watershed Year

“but the human will to live is primal.”
― Susan Schoenberger, The Virtues of Oxygen

“Looking back, I realize that nobody likes to be reminded of the fragility of the human condition.”
― Susan Schoenberger, The Virtues of Oxygen

“Holly could already see the inevitable sucking away of a lifetime of gathering, earning, and saving into the insatiable void of the health-care industry.”
― Susan Schoenberger, The Virtues of Oxygen

“Bartlebysnopes.com,”
― Susan Schoenberger, The Virtues of Oxygen

“The fifth, and final, way to prove the existence of God, Aquinas said, was the argument from intelligent design. It’s just common sense, according to Aquinas, to believe that the universe was created by an ‘intelligent designer’; in other words, God. The order of nature, the beauty of the stars, the clever way it all fits together had to be arranged by such a designer and not by chance. Just look around you, Aquinas was saying; examine the perfection of a tree or an insect or a child and tell me there isn’t a God.”
― Susan Schoenberger, A Watershed Year

“there’s no point in fighting the battle when you don’t think you can win the war.”
― Susan Schoenberger, A Watershed Year

“students”
― Susan Schoenberger, A Watershed Year

“Financial security seemed like something that existed for a few decades after World War II and then evaporated even as people continued to believe they could attain it.”
― Susan Schoenberger, The Virtues of Oxygen

“Does anyone have an excuse to live an ordinary life? Not when you have all the resources you need to succeed. Not when it’s just about motivation.”
― Susan Schoenberger, The Virtues of Oxygen

“On the outside, you’re such a gentle person, Lucy, almost too passive sometimes. But your core is made of titanium, or at least it is where I’m concerned.”
― Susan Schoenberger, A Watershed Year

“He had been the strong one, in accepting her help, in allowing her to see him as vulnerable. She had always been glad he hadn’t pushed her away”
― Susan Schoenberger, A Watershed Year

“The way of God is complex, He is hard for us to predict. He moves the pieces and they come somehow into a kind of order.”
― Susan Schoenberger, A Watershed Year