Susan Patron Quotes & Sayings

The whole world is full of danger. But also it is full of beauty and courage and many wonders. — Susan Patron

Sometimes we get this great gift, man, and we just take it for granted. We only figure it out, how much we lost, when it's gone.
- Short Sammy — Susan Patron

It made her feel discouraged, like if you took the word apart into two sections of dis and couraged. It was getting harder and harder to stay couraged. — Susan Patron

Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles on our cakes. — Susan Patron

And even if you carry a survival kit around with you at all times, it won't guarantee you'll survive. No kit in the world can protect you from all the possible bad things. — Susan Patron

Sometimes what wishes do ... especially the big, big wishes, is churn up all the confusion and longing that sloshes around forever inside of you. — Susan Patron

Because sometimes Lucky wanted to change everything, all the bad things that had happened, and sometimes she wanted everything to stay the same forever. — Susan Patron

It was like the moment before you open a present, still hidden inside its box and wrappings; while you're waiting to find out what it is, the eagerness and impatience and curiosity and anticipation grip you in an even stronger, more thrilling way than you feel after you find out what's inside. — Susan Patron

Lucky discovered that laughing was like crying in the sense that sometimes you cannot stop. And it's a catching disease, because when another person is spurting and gasping it makes you start again even after you have taken deep gulps of air and stopped looking at the other laughing person. — Susan Patron

Some aspects of life are strange or even terrible, but later something okay or even good happens that would never have happened without the bad/strange thing.
The Higher Power of Lucky — Susan Patron

Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to the inner world of the story as I can make them. — Susan Patron

When you are sad, your heart pumps the tragedy all through your body and fills your mind with the story of your suffering, and you tell that story to yourself over and over. — Susan Patron

The future does not happen just by chance. — Susan Patron

Boldness is a mask of fear, however so great — Susan Patron