Lurlene McDaniel Quotes & Sayings

When you're up against a superior enemy, sometimes it's okay to just bow out gracefully — Lurlene McDaniel

I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other. — Lurlene McDaniel

Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do. — Lurlene McDaniel

His guilt is my ticket to the latest and greatest. A guy adapts. — Lurlene McDaniel

For a freshman nobody, I look pretty good. At least that's what some girls hanging at the pool said. Sure, they were only eleven and twelve, but girls' opinions are always worth something to me. — Lurlene McDaniel

The book breathless is so sad but at the begging it is happy and the part that I'm at is sad because the guy that has cancer he wants to kill his self it is so sad I just kind of like it right know but it is sad to me and when I make kids read it when I have kids it will be so cool. — Lurlene McDaniel

The importance of my old life is dimming as I move toward the bright light I've seen once before. It's allowing me to come to it, and this time, I won't be sent back. If only the people I'm leaving behind could understand! There is no sadness where I'm going. Only joy. — Lurlene McDaniel

Most people believe they have a clear idea of what's right and wrong. Many say they know how they'll act, or how they'll handle an extreme situation. But to be honest, no one knows. Not really. Even if you say, 'I'll never do this or that.' it actually might not be true. Because no one of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong. And then there are the totally unforeseen situations, when life deals cards you never expected, or when something's that's considered wrong morphs into something right and your mind determines that what once was the rule is not written in stone. — Lurlene McDaniel

Foreknowledge is a burden, a weight I can hardly bear. Maybe that's why God keeps the future hidden from us. If I knew I would have a terrible accident, would I live my life trying to avoid it? Would I lock myself inside a room being safe? Or would I go outside and live day to day — Lurlene McDaniel

Are you sorry? Do you wish you could do it all again and go off and write novels instead of being a teacher?
No. You can't trade what is for what might have been. — Lurlene McDaniel

On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The best stories are the ones that force us to come to our own conclusions and to explain why we believe in our conclusions. — Lurlene McDaniel

From every ending comes a new beginning. — Lurlene McDaniel

You're never too old for teddy bears, Dawn. You're just too young for cancer. — Lurlene McDaniel

When my grandmother was alive, she used to tell me that every time God creates a soul in heaven, he creates another to become its special mate. And that once we're born, we begin our search for our soul mate, the one person who's the perfect fit for our mind and body. They lucky oens find each other. — Lurlene McDaniel

Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides. — Lurlene McDaniel

It can be scary facing the unknown. — Lurlene McDaniel

On our garden walks Mama always used to tell me, 'Angels live in gardens, Darcy.' 'Where?' I would ask, looking around for the white-winged beings I saw drawn on my Sunday school papers.
'Close your eyes and breathe deep.'
'All is smell is flowers, Mama,' I would say.
'Not so. That's the breath of the angels. And the stirrings you hear in the leaves are their wings brushing past. — Lurlene McDaniel

Old characters never die, but I do need to take a break from them in order to create new ones. — Lurlene McDaniel

Nobody gets to pick what life gives them — Lurlene McDaniel

While the two of them might never be the closest of friends, they had developed a connection that was important for each of them. When they'd needed someone, they'd found one another. — Lurlene McDaniel

What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or her acceptance of a situation she can't change. I read some sad cases in my snail and electronic mail. I respond to all I can, affirming that they are the true heroes of life because they are fighting through adversity and surviving. — Lurlene McDaniel

Forgiving's a choice you make - a gift you give to somebody even if they don't deserve it. It costs nothing, but it makes you feel rich for giving it away. — Lurlene McDaniel

We grew up together but we won't grow old together. — Lurlene McDaniel

Because I want you to know that your're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. And I thought I should introduce myself. I mean, we should get to know each other. Since you're the girl I intend to marry.
~Mark Gianni — Lurlene McDaniel

If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven. — Lurlene McDaniel

She did know that the journey to happiness was laborious and strewn with seeds of suffering. She guessed that it was probably a place each person had to seek for herself, that each heart had to find on its own. — Lurlene McDaniel

So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write. — Lurlene McDaniel

Love is patient and trusting; it doesn't hold a grudge when somebody hurts you, and most of all, it endures. — Lurlene McDaniel

What wisdom is there in keeping a person alive above all considerations ? Why should doctors keep restarting someone's heart if they're never going to get well? — Lurlene McDaniel

We all didn't come into to the world at the same time so it makes sense that we don't leave it at the same time. — Lurlene McDaniel

I'll cover you in flowers someday, Julie-girl. — Lurlene McDaniel

It was easier to talk about nothing than something. Because something was too terrible to discuss. Too dark and terrible to even think about. — Lurlene McDaniel

Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage. — Lurlene McDaniel

Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat. — Lurlene McDaniel

Life went on whether a person participated in it or not. — Lurlene McDaniel

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong. — Lurlene McDaniel

Lost. The therapist made it sound as if the person could be found. As if death wasn't final and irrevocable. — Lurlene McDaniel

Each generation stamps itself onto the next one. The impression is indelible. Like the flowers in my mother's gardens that come and go with the changing seasons, life re-creates itself. And the best of life must be nurtured if it is to thrive. — Lurlene McDaniel

If it's possible to send a message from heaven, I'll get one to you. — Lurlene McDaniel

He doesn't teach you what to think, he teaches you how to think — Lurlene McDaniel

I'd draw a picture of an army of teddy bears charging out to fight these green, gloppy looking blobs. My teddy bears would be riding white horses and carrying long lances like knights of the Round Table. She started giggling at the thought of Mr. Ruggers leading a brigade of pandas, potbellies, and fuzzy-wuzzies in her defense. — Lurlene McDaniel

We're all on the journey of a lifetime. God is our shepherd, and we have only to do what He asks of us. Kindness for one another, love for each other, that is what will change the world. Medicine can heal the body. But only God can make well the human soul. — Lurlene McDaniel

Sisters are made by living everyday with each other and wearing each other down until the rough spots are smooth. They're made by sharing secrets you'd never tell mom, and out of doing things for each other just because you feel like it, not because you have to. I guess you could say sisters are 'grown,' not manufactured, in a very special place called a family. — Lurlene McDaniel

People can't help the way they look, just the way they act. — Lurlene McDaniel

He's at the library, I think. Safe and sound in his world of books ... Maybe he'll write one someday. — Lurlene McDaniel

Next year, when you return, you'll bring the ashes back and toss them onto that year's bonfire. In this way, each of us comes back to this place, bringing some of the past, leaving with some of the future. — Lurlene McDaniel

But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers. — Lurlene McDaniel

In truth, how much time do any of us really have? — Lurlene McDaniel

Medals hang from his neck in a glittering array, like jewelry, like starts that will now go out because their sun no longer burns. — Lurlene McDaniel

I hoped for a miracle, but most of all, I hoped for someone to truly understand what I was going through.
I can't make you live longer, I can't stop you from hurting but I can give you one wish as someone did for me. My wish helped me find purpose, faith, and courage. Friendship reaches beyond time and the true miracle is in giving, not recieving. — Lurlene McDaniel

You don't know me, but I know about you ... I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me. — Lurlene McDaniel

For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms. — Lurlene McDaniel

Somebody had to die in order that somebody else can go on living. — Lurlene McDaniel

The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the shape of the letter U. I love you. — Lurlene McDaniel

So long as one person remembers you, you'll never really be dead. — Lurlene McDaniel

Hanging out the window, Amber blew her a kiss. a lump the size of a fist clogged Heather's throat, while a breeze from th sea pushed her thick hair away from her face. tears trickled unchecked down her cheeks. — Lurlene McDaniel

By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds. — Lurlene McDaniel

In truth, I don't want to be there. I don't want to see the light go out of my brother's eyes. — Lurlene McDaniel

I have a lot of boo-boos, cowboy."
"Maybe I should kiss them." He leaned forward, brushed his lips against her forehead, just above the stitches over her eyebrow.
She held up her arm where there was an abrasion. "Hurts here too."
He kissed the spot.
"And here." She pointed to her mouth.
He kissed her with a pressure as light as the brush of a butterfly's wing.
She thought of a hundred places on her body she wanted him to kiss. "I hurt all over. — Lurlene McDaniel

Please don't miss me too much. Please don't be too sad. Find someone else to love, because you have much love to give and it's a gift that shouldn't be wasted. You , Jesse, were the rose that made my life sweet.I will wait for you in heaven. — Lurlene McDaniel