Lurlene McDaniel famous quotes

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

#Motivational #Max

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

#Pain #Suffering #Soil

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

#Waiting #Heaven #Wedding Day

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

#Circumstances #Overwhelming

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

#Book #Interesting #Friendly

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

#Mom #Secret #Everyday

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

#Hurt #Thinking #Knowing

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

#Hurt #Giving #Wish

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

#Inspirational #Long #Remember

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

#Lying #Dark #Space

From every ending comes a new beginning.
-- Lurlene McDaniel

#New Beginnings

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

#Love You #Flower #Heart

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

#Girl #True Love #Flower

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

#Cancer #Heaven #Messages

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

#Brother #Eye #Light

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

#Book #Writing #Heart

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

#Enemy #Bows #Sometimes

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 reallyBecause 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

#Believe #Ideas #People

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

#Book #Hero #Writing

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

#Kids #Odds #Overcoming

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

#Character #Order #Needs

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

#Believe #Two #Events

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

#Inspirational #Hurt #Love Is

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

#World #Make Sense

In truth, how much time do any of us really have?
-- 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

#Sweet #Rose #Giving

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

#Lying #Long #Bereavement

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

#Grandmother #Perfect #Heaven

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

#Beautiful #Girl #Mean

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

#Giving #Choices #Cost

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

#Heart #Journey #Suffering

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

#People #Facts #Glimpse

Nobody gets to pick what life gives them
-- Lurlene McDaniel

#Giving

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

#People #Looks #Way

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

#Kissing #Sea #Hair