Susan Macbean > Susan's Quotes

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
― Corrie ten Boom

“This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place

“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.”
― Neil Gaiman

“There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people: psychopaths and mystery writers.”
― Richard Castle

“As a writer, I can think of no greater terror than confronting a blank page, except perhaps the terror of being shot at.”
― Richard Castle, Naked Heat

“I really am ruggedly handsome, aren't I?”
― Richard Castle, Heat Rises

“Rejection isn't failure. Failure is giving up. Everybody gets rejected. It's how you handle it that determines where you'll end up.”
― Richard Castle

“Go ahead. Rip my bodice.”
― Richard Castle, Naked Heat

“Most people come up against a wall they give up, not you. You don't let go, you don't back down...it's what makes you extraordinary." Castle to Beckett”
― Richard Castle

“I loves me my Google”
― Richard Castle, Heat Rises

“Because if you don't even believe in the possibility of magic you will never ever find it.”
― Richard Castle

“There's always a story.”
― Richard Castle

“There are two kinds of people who sit around all day thinking about killing people...mystery writers and serial killers. I'm the kind that pays better.”
― Richard Castle

“How could parents raise children and then watch them walk out of their lives? Were thy all masochists? Why would they do that to themselves? He knew the answer deep down; he'd felt it when Chrissie told him she loved him. They did because for all the pain and heartache children brough, they gave back equal amounts of pure, limmitless joy.”
― Mary Campisi, A Family Affair

“Sometimes it’s better not to know. Nothing can change what is or what happened and digging around in the past is only going to make you miserable.”
― Mary Campisi, A Family Affair

“It was true that one could be more alone with someone than by oneself.”
― Mary Campisi, A Family Affair

“Marriage was nothing but a primitive form of torture”
― Mary Campisi, A Family Affair

“Why couldn’t people just be who they were? Womanizers, drinkers, liars, and manipulators, instead of pretending around it all, hiding the secrets like dirty laundry stuffed under a bed, and then dying, so the grieving got whammed with two losses—the flesh-and-blood bodies and the images they thought they knew.”
― Mary Campisi, A Family Affair

“How does a mother tell her child that the memories he holds of his father are incorrect, that the truth does not even remotely resemble the memory? How does she tell him about the gaping holes in the recall that make it all a sham?”
― Mary Campisi, A Family Affair

“chignon.”
― Mary Campisi, A Family Affair

“everything—sound, sight, feeling, certainly understanding. Christine remembered little of that night other than the smear of life and loss pulling her under, sinking her soul, and the sight of her mother crumpled in a chair with Uncle Harry and his glass of Johnny Walker Red. A man called, he’d said…”
― Mary Campisi, A Family Affair

“A mother knows her children’s weaknesses, even if she sometimes refuses to acknowledge them.”
― Mary Campisi, A Family Affair