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Top 20 Sue Halpern Quotes (2025 Update)

Sue Halpern Quote: “Though we are made of memories, we live only in the here and now.”

1. “Though we are made of memories, we live only in the here and now.”

— Sue Halpern

Sue Halpern Quote: “People who don’t think the rules apply to them, Kit was beginning to learn, are surprised and offended when others don’t recognize and honor their exemption.”

2. “People who don’t think the rules apply to them, Kit was beginning to learn, are surprised and offended when others don’t recognize and honor their exemption.”

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Sue Halpern Quote: “Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive ‘nows.’”

3. “Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive ‘nows.’”

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Sue Halpern Quote: “We are made of memories and formed by experience. I keep wondering what kind of people we would be, and what kind of world this would be, if when bad things happened we could erase them, or somehow make them sweet.”

4. “We are made of memories and formed by experience. I keep wondering what kind of people we would be, and what kind of world this would be, if when bad things happened we could erase them, or somehow make them sweet.”

— Sue Halpern

Sue Halpern Quote: “Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular effects to someone else, no one can trust for us.”

5. “Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular effects to someone else, no one can trust for us.”

— Sue Halpern

Sue Halpern Quote: “One thing I can suggest is that when you start to go to a dark place, for you to consciously redirect your thoughts. Mind over mind. Make yourself think of something completely different. An image of something joyful or silly, and focus on that.”

6. “One thing I can suggest is that when you start to go to a dark place, for you to consciously redirect your thoughts. Mind over mind. Make yourself think of something completely different. An image of something joyful or silly, and focus on that.”

— Sue Halpern

Sue Halpern Quote: “It was as if her mind were a theater where bad actors could be run off the stage by a pack of adorable, yelping dogs.”

7. “It was as if her mind were a theater where bad actors could be run off the stage by a pack of adorable, yelping dogs.”

— Sue Halpern

Sue Halpern Quote: “A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something ‘measured’ and counted, is not a culture that will sustain alternatives to market-driven ’creativity.”

8. “A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something ‘measured’ and counted, is not a culture that will sustain alternatives to market-driven ’creativity.”

— Sue Halpern

Sue Halpern Quote: “I don’t think she’s being mysterious on purpose. It’s like she can’t help it. She’s not shy – she’ll talk to anyone – and she’s not exactly distant, but even so, she’s unreachable, as if there’s an invisible fence around her, or a force field the repels whatever gets too close.”

9. “I don’t think she’s being mysterious on purpose. It’s like she can’t help it. She’s not shy – she’ll talk to anyone – and she’s not exactly distant, but even so, she’s unreachable, as if there’s an invisible fence around her, or a force field the repels whatever gets too close.”

— Sue Halpern

Sue Halpern Quote: “It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too – individuals whose canvas is our lives.”

10. “It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too – individuals whose canvas is our lives.”

— Sue Halpern

Sue Halpern Quote: “Trauma is not just one thing.”

11. “Trauma is not just one thing.”

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Sue Halpern Quote: “Everyone’s life is an unfolding story, and all stories have good guys and bad guys, and all stories have conflicts and resolutions, and all stories – if they are interesting – have drama.”

12. “Everyone’s life is an unfolding story, and all stories have good guys and bad guys, and all stories have conflicts and resolutions, and all stories – if they are interesting – have drama.”

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Sue Halpern Quote: “Freedom, he was learning, was not a set point, like the temperature at which water freezes, but something mutable, a moving target.”

13. “Freedom, he was learning, was not a set point, like the temperature at which water freezes, but something mutable, a moving target.”

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Sue Halpern Quote: “I think it’s possible that when you think that the future might bring great sadness, you become more generous that you ever has been before, so you can carry other people’s happiness with you.”

14. “I think it’s possible that when you think that the future might bring great sadness, you become more generous that you ever has been before, so you can carry other people’s happiness with you.”

— Sue Halpern

Sue Halpern Quote: “Trusting each other is the beginning of a certain secular faith, a faith that allows us to live in families and communities and nations. Democracy, above all other forms of government, requires this faith...”

15. “Trusting each other is the beginning of a certain secular faith, a faith that allows us to live in families and communities and nations. Democracy, above all other forms of government, requires this faith...”

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Sue Halpern Quote: “And most, like me, were drawn to the miracle of the blank page and how, when seeded with letters, it blossomed into words and sentences and paragraphs and stories.”

16. “And most, like me, were drawn to the miracle of the blank page and how, when seeded with letters, it blossomed into words and sentences and paragraphs and stories.”

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Sue Halpern Quote: “I realize no one thinks being a librarian is as awesome as being a neurosurgeon, but I always thought I was doing something valuable, putting books in the hands of readers. Books can save lives, too. I really believe that.”

17. “I realize no one thinks being a librarian is as awesome as being a neurosurgeon, but I always thought I was doing something valuable, putting books in the hands of readers. Books can save lives, too. I really believe that.”

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Sue Halpern Quote: “Do you stop reading a book because you don’t want to watch the characters you like turn out to be unlikable, or the ones with which you identify denied the happy ending you believe they deserve?”

18. “Do you stop reading a book because you don’t want to watch the characters you like turn out to be unlikable, or the ones with which you identify denied the happy ending you believe they deserve?”

— Sue Halpern

Sue Halpern Quote: “Somewhere in the unfolding story, something is going to happen that will change everything that happens after it.”

19. “Somewhere in the unfolding story, something is going to happen that will change everything that happens after it.”

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Sue Halpern Quote: “Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who.”

20. “Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who.”

— Sue Halpern

Sue Halpern Quote: “I already told you a ghost story,” she said at last. “The one where the wife was invisible to the husband and the truth of the marriage was invisible to her.”

21. “I already told you a ghost story,” she said at last. “The one where the wife was invisible to the husband and the truth of the marriage was invisible to her.”

— Sue Halpern

Sue Halpern Quote: “What you’re thinking of as the end of the story now, is only the end of the chapter.”

22. “What you’re thinking of as the end of the story now, is only the end of the chapter.”

— Sue Halpern

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