Lurlene McDaniel Quotes

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

Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

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.

In truth, I don't want to be there. I don't want to see the light go out of my brother's eyes.

From every ending comes a new beginning.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I can be around kids if I need to be.

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

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

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

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.

Nobody gets to pick what life gives them

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

I like to tell young people - you know one in four children die by their own hands - no matter how bad things seem, just wait a day, wait a week. Life will turn around.

You want to attach emotionally.

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

Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.

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

I have known some magnificent young people who died very young but had wonderful lives and inspired many people by their short existence.

You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending.

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

Lost. The therapist made it sound as if the person could be found. As if death wasn’t final and irrevocable.

Are you sorry? Do you wish you could do it all again and go off and write novels instead of being a teacher?No. You can’t trade what is for what might have been.

He doesn't teach you what to think, he teaches you how to think

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