Susanna Kearsley Quotes

• I believe there are no random meetings in our lives – that everyone we touch, who touches us, has been put in our path for a reason. The briefest encounter can open a door, or heal a wound, or close a circle that was started long before your birth.

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  Believe, Doors, Circles

  Susanna Kearsley (2011). “Every Secret Thing”, p.278, Allison & Busby

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• The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.

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  Life, Moving, Past

  Susanna Kearsley (2009). “Mariana”, p.218, Allison & Busby

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• But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.

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  Disappointment, Shining, Promise

  Susanna Kearsley (2011). “Sophia's Secret”, p.43, Allison & Busby

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• It's too easy, you see, to get trapped in the past. The past is very seductive. People always talk about the mists of time, you know, but really it's the present that's in a mist, uncertain. The past is quite clear, and warm, and comforting. That's why people often get stuck there.

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  Past, People, Seductive

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• Hope rarely enters into it. 'Tis action moves the world.

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  Moving, World, Action

  Susanna Kearsley (2016). “The Susanna Kearsley Collection”, p.618, Allison & Busby Ltd

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• So, you see, my heart is held forever by this place," she said. "I cannot leave.

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  Heart, Forever, My Heart

  Susanna Kearsley (2016). “The Susanna Kearsley Collection”, p.354, Allison & Busby Ltd

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• Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.

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  Relationship, Break Up, Letting Go

  Susanna Kearsley (2011). “The Rose Garden”, p.34, Allison & Busby

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• I do promise that you will survive this. Faith, my own heart is so scattered round the country now, I marvel that it has the strength each day to keep me standing. But it does,' she said, and drawing in a steady breath she pulled back just enough to raise a hand to wipe Sophia's tears. 'It does. And so will yours.' 'How can you be so sure?' 'Because it is a heart, and knows no better.

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  Country, Heart, Hands

  Susanna Kearsley (2016). “The Susanna Kearsley Collection”, p.675, Allison & Busby Ltd

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• Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it.

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  Moving, Mean, Winning

  Susanna Kearsley (2011). “Sophia's Secret”, p.270, Allison & Busby

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• Tis never the place, but the people one shares it with who are the cause of our happiest memories.

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  Memories, People, Causes

  Susanna Kearsley (2016). “The Susanna Kearsley Collection”, p.262, Allison & Busby Ltd

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• If it is true that men have souls that do survive them, he went on, ignoring me, and if those souls are born again to life, you need not worry that my ghost will haunt you. I'll haunt you in the flesh, instead.

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  Men, Worry, Soul

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• Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.

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  Enough, Said

  Susanna Kearsley (2011). “The Rose Garden”, p.248, Allison & Busby

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• Life is always uncertain,'he said with a shrug. 'We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.

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  Might, Life Is, Said

  Susanna Kearsley (2016). “The Susanna Kearsley Collection”, p.280, Allison & Busby Ltd

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• The world becomes a wider place, with but a little learning.

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  World, Littles

  Susanna Kearsley (2014). “The Firebird”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Grieving, Deep Water, Slides

  Susanna Kearsley (2008). “Sophia's Secret”

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• ..the fields might fall to fallow and the birds might stop their song awhile; the growing things might die and lie in silence under snow, while through it all the cold sea wore its face of storms and death and sunken hopes...and yet unseen beneath the waves a warmer current ran that, in its time, would bring the spring.

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  Song, Lying, Spring

  Susanna Kearsley (2016). “The Susanna Kearsley Collection”, p.708, Allison & Busby Ltd

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• Ye'll never best your fears until ye face them

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  Faces

  Susanna Kearsley (2011). “Sophia's Secret”, p.133, Allison & Busby

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• When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.

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  Fighting, Wind, Sail

  Susanna Kearsley (2016). “The Susanna Kearsley Collection”, p.178, Allison & Busby Ltd

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• Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.

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  Fighting, Knowing, Wish

  Susanna Kearsley (2011). “The Rose Garden”, p.193, Allison & Busby

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• There's a line in The Barretts of Wimpole Street - you know, the play - where Elizabeth Barrett is trying to work out the meaning of one of Robert Browning's poems, and she shows it to him, and he reads it and he tells her when he wrote that poem, only God and Robert Browning knew what it meant, and now only God knows. And that's how I feel about studying English. Who knows what the writer was thinking, and why should it matter? I'd rather just read for enjoyment.

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  Thinking, Play, Work Out

  Susanna Kearsley (2016). “The Susanna Kearsley Collection”, p.469, Allison & Busby Ltd

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• Men who watch, and say little, very often are much wiser than the men they serve.

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  Men, Watches, Littles

  Susanna Kearsley (2011). “Sophia's Secret”, p.100, Allison & Busby

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• These are your beautiful days, Julia Beckett," he promised softly.

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  Beautiful, Beckett, Julia

  Susanna Kearsley (2009). “Mariana”, p.268, Allison & Busby

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