Susan Wiggs Quotes

“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

“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

“That’s how it is with infants. The minute the pain’s gone, so are the tears. If more people would do that, the world would be a happier place.”
― Susan Wiggs, Just Breathe

“You have seven writers in your basement?”

Donald nods, signing, “They like it here. There’s a poet, a couple of novelists, an opera librettist, an essay writer . . . . They don’t usually make much trouble.”
― Susan Wiggs, Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices

“You know how often we have longed for a sea voyage, as the fulfillment of all our dreams of poetry and romance, the realization of our highest conceptions of free, joyous existence.
Let me assure you, my dears. that going to sea is not at all the thing that we have taken it to be.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands.”
― Susan Wiggs, Harriet Beecher Stowe

“She inhaled air so damp it seemed to drench her lungs.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Charm School

“I can see the Lady has a genius for ruling, whilst I have a genius for not being ruled.
Jane Welsh Carlyle, (1845)”
― Susan Wiggs, The Charm School

“To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. 
Amos Bronson Alcott, "Table Talk".”
― Amos Bronson Alcottt

“Can I carry Something? Caroline offered.
Just your emotional baggage, Virginia said, picking up an appetizer tray.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Oysterville Sewing Circle