Top 30 Lurlene McDaniel Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “From every ending comes a new beginning.”

— Lurlene McDaniel

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2. “Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.”

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3. “So long as one person remembers you, you’ll never really be dead.”

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4. “If I can’t wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I’ll wait for you in heaven.”

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5. “When you’re up against a superior enemy, sometimes it’s okay to just bow out gracefully.”

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6. “If it’s possible to send a message from heaven, I’ll get one to you.”

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7. “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.”

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8. “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

9. “I’ll cover you in flowers someday, Julie-girl.”

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10. “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

11. “You’re never too old for teddy bears, Dawn. You’re just too young for cancer.”

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12. “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.”

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13. “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.”

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14. “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.”

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15. “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.”

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16. “Love is patient and trusting; it doesn’t hold a grudge when somebody hurts you, and most of all, it endures.”

— Lurlene McDaniel

17. “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

18. “People can’t help the way they look, just the way they act.”

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19. “Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.”

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20. “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

21. “Old characters never die, but I do need to take a break from them in order to create new ones.”

— Lurlene McDaniel

22. “Nobody gets to pick what life gives them.”

— Lurlene McDaniel

23. “He’s at the library, I think. Safe and sound in his world of books... Maybe he’ll write one someday.”

— Lurlene McDaniel

24. “In truth, how much time do any of us really have?”

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25. “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

26. “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

27. “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

28. “I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.”

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29. “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.”

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30. “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

31. “By using novels, I show ordinary kids confronting and overcoming great odds.”

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32. “It can be scary facing the unknown.”

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33. “Life went on whether people participated in it or not.”

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