Suzanne Hayes > Quotes

“Think about it this way--our actions speak truth our words cannot.”
― Suzanne Hayes, I'll Be Seeing You

“We don't need to have the answers. We'll never have them. They'll come and go and change. And all we can do is figure out the best way to behave when life comes at us. Even if society says it isn't right. Right is so subjective, after all.”
― Suzanne Hayes, I'll Be Seeing You

“We are always waiting, aren't we? All in a state of hesitation and held breath. Sometimes it's glorious like a storm at the end of a hot day.”
― Suzanne Hayes, I'll Be Seeing You

“Tonight started innocently enough. Most terrible things do, right?”
― Suzanne Hayes, I'll Be Seeing You

“Sometimes the parts of us that we don’t like are useful.”
― Suzanne Hayes, I'll Be Seeing You

“We're all so multifaceted, and it's impossible to see all the sides at once.”
― Suzanne Hayes, I'll Be Seeing You

“Silence is a powerful tool.”
― Suzanne Hayes, I'll Be Seeing You

“When you put your whole heart in something you risk just that. Your whole heart. It's a high roller's type of gamble. I can tell by your letters that you love with your whole heart.”
― Suzanne Hayes, I'll Be Seeing You

“Did if feel like jumping off a cliff when he kissed you? I imagine it did.”
― Suzanne Hayes, I'll Be Seeing You

“...a summer romance that showed her stability and love could walk hand in hand. That love wasn't really what she'd been taught by her own family. It wasn't supposed to be a Tasmanian devil of insecurity and obsession. "Life gets heavy,"she told us, "like hot summer nights. At first you toss and turn, but slowly you learn that if you keep very, very still your body can capture a random breeze that latches onto you and cools you for a moment. Infinite and blissful, your body soars to greet it and holds onto it, but it leaves. And that's love. That's what love does".”
― Suzanne Palmieri The Witch of Little Italy

“Il n'y a rien de mal à être romantique. Cela signifie seulement que vous voyez le monde à travers un filtre plus tendre.”
― Suzanne Hayes

“When you feel weak in spirit, think about the agreements you made with yourself about how to live an honourable life. We all have them, but unfortunately the contracts are often written in invisible ink when they should be signed in blood.”
― Suzanne Hayes, I'll Be Seeing You

“You saw everything inside me, every pathway to my heart. Every thought, profound to petty. You laughed away the bad and celebrated the good.
To be known, really known, is the essence of love. To live without love is a shadow life.”
― suzanne palmieri-hayes loretta nyhan

“It's good of you to teach the child. A woman needs to be as independent as she can be ore else the world will use her skirts as handkerchiefs and then toss her in the garbage.”
― Suzanne Hayes, Loretta Nyhan, I'll Be Seeing You

“I'm trying to tell him everything will be all right, but how can I say it with a straight face? My son's no idiot. He knows when I'm lying.
The medicine won't taste bad.
The bath is not hot.
Daddy will be safe.
Lies.”
― Suzanne Hayes

“To put it bluntly, he could die. Any moment. But so could Robert and Sal and Toby. At least I am here with him. He's not alone. Our other boys? They are alone out there without us.”
― Suzanne Hayes, I'll Be Seeing You

“Charlie started crying, in the convulsive, soundless way that men do. "Don't you understand," he said after composing himself, "that's a funeral dirge for the first wave." We all thought about that, the many lives lost before we even opened our eyes this morning.”
― Suzanne Hayes, I'll Be Seeing You

“Anna used to say that the Buddhists meditate about reactions. That we cannot control WHAT happens to us, only how we react to it.”
― Suzanne Hayes, I'll Be Seeing You

“If I'm in this war, too, then I should be upset. You know I'm not the type to think collecting bacon grease and scrap metal will keep anyone from dying. How about you give me the words so you don't have to hold them in? It's the least I can do.”
― Suzanne Hayes, I'll Be Seeing You

“Living inside of all this anxiety is difficult. I don’t know if I should grab at life or wait for it to grab me.”
― Suzanne Hayes, I'll Be Seeing You

“Why don't you go to bed for a bit, Glory?" suggested Robert. "It's been a hell of a war."
It's been a hell of a war, he said. I'll never forget it.”
― Suzanne Hayes, I'll Be Seeing You

“Sal says it's our responsibility as human beings to never lose our curiosity.”
― Suzanne Hayes, Loretta Nyhan, I'll Be Seeing You

“If I shut everything else out and filled the room with memories, the past could become the present, and I could live there, with him. I would never leave.”
― Suzanne Hayes, I'll Be Seeing You

“Now I've done it. Only one line to say I love you. And I do. Be safe. XO Rita”
― Suzanne Hayes, I'll Be Seeing You

“Did you ever catch a glimpse of what you could be, if you really tried at life?”
― Suzanne Hayes, I'll Be Seeing You

“New ideas leave the old ones shaking in their shoes, don't they?”
― Suzanne Hayes, Loretta Nyhan, I'll Be Seeing You

“That is my job, right? To comfort him. To keep the portrait of what he left behind intact. Isn't that a woman's duty during wartime?”
― Suzanne Hayes, I'll Be Seeing You

“This war. It's stolen our peace. It's stolen our tomorrows as well as our yesterdays.”
― Suzanne Hayes, I'll Be Seeing You

“There is no reason for him to be in a strange land, the grim reaper holding him close, saying, "Yes, today is the day," or "No, not yet.”
― Suzanne Hayes, I'll Be Seeing You

“Oh, merveilleux bonhomme. Tu voyais tout en moi, chaque recoin de mon petit cœur. La moindre de mes pensées, qu'elle soit profonde ou mesquine.Tu riais pour éloigner le mal et célébrais les moments de joie.
Être connu de quelqu'un, profondément, de l'intérieur, c'est ça, l'essence de l'amour. Une existence sans amour n'est que l'ombre de la vie. J'ai erré dans cette pénombre quand tu es parti pour le camp d'entraînement, Sal. Et elle a failli me submerger lorsque tu es mort. Je le souhaitais, en un sens.
Jusqu'au jour où une personne a décidé qu'elle me connaissait suffisamment pour me montrer toutes les bonnes raisons que j'avais de rester en vie.”
― Suzanne Hayes