Top 100 Susan Wiggs Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You’re never alone when you’re reading a book.”

— Susan Wiggs

2. “Unexpected change is like a breath of fresh air – a little brisk at first, but magic for the body and soul.”

— Susan Wiggs

3. “Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don’t have to live forever, you just have to live. – Tuck Everlasting.”

— Susan Wiggs

4. “In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be, by remaining what we are. – Max De Pree.”

— Susan Wiggs

5. “There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable – a wound that will never quite heal.”

— Susan Wiggs

6. “There’s a kind of love that has the power to save you, to get you through life. It’s like breathing. You have to do it or you’ll die. And when it’s over, your soul starts to bleed. There’s no pain in the world like it, I swear.”

— Susan Wiggs

7. “You are TSTL. I beg your pardon. Too stupid to live.”

— Susan Wiggs

8. “Scary thought – what if I get to know myself and I’m someone I don’t want to be?”

— Susan Wiggs

9. “In all my novels, a sense of place – not just geographic but social – is a critical element. I have always been drawn to the novels of Edith Wharton, among others, where social dynamics are crucial. Wharton’s class consciousness fascinates me, and some of the tension in my books stems from that.”

— Susan Wiggs

10. “She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference.”

— Susan Wiggs

11. “A fresh eddy of sadness washed over Natalie, and she shuddered with emotional pain. When would the tears stop? When would the pain subside? It wasn’t like a headache or illness that could be cured by swallowing a pill. No, this ache of missing and regret felt like a constant, incurable condition.”

— Susan Wiggs

12. “When tragedy strikes, I must remember to breathe until I get to the fun part again.”

— Susan Wiggs

13. “Don’t walk in circles. Walk in a straight line. At least you’ll end up somewhere.”

— Susan Wiggs

14. “The human heart was such a complex organ, fragile and sturdy all at once.”

— Susan Wiggs

15. “What is home? Maybe it’s not a place, but a moment in time. When I was safe. Secure. Cared for. Home. It’s more than a point on a map. It’s a sensation. A feeling of comfort – feet.”

— Susan Wiggs

16. “I love my life, my family and my friends, and I’m drawn to ‘relationship’ novels because of their affirming focus on the power of love to heal wounds and transform lives.”

— Susan Wiggs

17. “Appreciate the journey, and recognize your strength. – See the Triumph.”

— Susan Wiggs

18. “What’s difficult to understand about German opera? It’s always the same. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love, girl gets devoured by horrible winged creature with claws.”

— Susan Wiggs

19. “Ever since she was small, she’d found delight and comfort in books. For her, a story was so much more than words on a page. Opening a book was like opening a door to another world, and once she stepped across the threshold, she was transported. When she was reading a story, she lived inside a different skin.”

— Susan Wiggs

20. “She knew the soothing power of a human touch on aching flesh. Knew the strange bond that formed when two creatures united in mutual need, one hurting, the other healing.”

— Susan Wiggs

21. “Thank you for all the Acts of Light which beautified a summer now passed to its reward. – letter from Emily Dickinson to Mrs. John Howard Sweetser.”

— Susan Wiggs

22. “What I’ve found is that you make time for the things that matter to you. Everyone has the time. It’s just a question of deciding what to do with that time.”

— Susan Wiggs

23. “Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life.”

— Susan Wiggs

24. “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. – Marilyn Monroe.”

— Susan Wiggs

25. “Writing is a struggle no matter what the genre.”

— Susan Wiggs

26. “As the saying goes, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

— Susan Wiggs

27. “Here’s the thing about broken hearts. You can always survive them. Always. No matter how deep the hurt, the capacity to heal and move on is even stronger.”

— Susan Wiggs

28. “She watched the gap between ship and shore grow to a huge gulf. Perhaps this was a little like dying, the departed no longer visible to the others, yet both still existed, only in different worlds.”

— Susan Wiggs

29. “I know you got your heart broken but I know the heart can heal, too. And I know what it feels like to love again. I love you so much, I can’t sleep at night. Sometimes I forget to breathe. And in a hundred years, that’s never going to change.”

— Susan Wiggs

30. “Insults sting but a little when they stem from a man’s ignorance.”

— Susan Wiggs

31. “When you’re with the person you love, you’re home.”

— Susan Wiggs

32. “What a joy life is when you have made a close working partnership with Nature, helping her to produce for the benefit of mankind new forms, colors, and perfumes in flowers which were never known before; fruits in form, size, and flavor never before seen on this globe.” – Luther Burbank. “It’s the.”

— Susan Wiggs

33. “At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.”

— Susan Wiggs

34. “Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance.”

— Susan Wiggs

35. “He could not name precisely the special quality she possessed. A glow. An exuberance. An aggressive and determined joy that gave her the courage to push past his defenses, to confront him with unflinching courage, to look into his heart and to see something there worth fighting for.”

— Susan Wiggs

36. “Fear and love were sometimes the same thing both necessary unavoidable. Now she understood that it was okay to bleed if you know how to heal.”

— Susan Wiggs

37. “He was the worst kind of liar, the kind who took hearts as hostages and broke them with impunity.”

— Susan Wiggs

38. “On Sunday, something washed up on shore.”

— Susan Wiggs

39. “No one had ever told them they might need each other one day, an for some reason, they hadn’t figured it out themselves.”

— Susan Wiggs

40. “I lived in upstate New York until I was ten years old and we moved overseas. I have a lot of nostalgic memories of that part of the world, and I love going back there by writing the Lakeshore books.”

— Susan Wiggs

41. “Did you know a child laughs an average of three hundred times a day, and an adult just three?”

— Susan Wiggs

42. “Don’t let the things you have to do take over the things you love to do.”

— Susan Wiggs

43. “She was starting to see that there was nothing wrong with sometimes letting the day unfold according to its own rhythm.”

— Susan Wiggs

44. “What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time. – John Berger, English art critic.”

— Susan Wiggs

45. “My really smart mom used to say there’d be things in life I don’t like, but’s that no reason to stop liking life.”

— Susan Wiggs

46. “Teachers are by nature idealists, and they believe anything can be learned.”

— Susan Wiggs

47. “Tell the story that’s in your heart, and don’t hold back. Write a book the reader will want to melt into.”

— Susan Wiggs

48. “Honestly, the essence of publishing hasn’t changed. Since the days of the cave man carving stuff on the cave walls, people have wanted stories, and storytellers have wanted an audience. That is still the case. The changes are really a matter of format.”

— Susan Wiggs

49. “And that refuge was the most reliable place of all – between the pages of a book.”

— Susan Wiggs

50. “There can be no fooling ourselves into thinking this is something other than what it is – the willful ejection of Molly from our nest. It’s too late for second thoughts, anyway. She has to be moved into her dorm in time for freshman orientation. It’s been marked on the kitchen calendar for weeks – the expiration date on her childhood.”

— Susan Wiggs