8 Quotes by Susan Gregg Gilmore

It's a funny thing, how much time we spend planning our lives. We so convince ourselves of what we want to do, that sometimes we don't see what we're meant to do.

When we were little, people said we looked just like twins for no better reason than we might have been wearing the same color shirt. You had to wonder if they were truly looking at us.

Dying has a funny way of making you see people, the living and the dead, a little differently. Maybe that's just part of the grieving, or maybe the dead stand there and open our eyes a bit wider.

And yet that’s all I’ve ever done, doubt where I’m meant to be.

I never for a minute would have believed a dream could be this painful.

Daddy said that Jesus talked in parables because people have a tendency to hear but not listen. They look but don’t see. I guess I was no different than anybody else. I looked and looked for that dad-gum golden egg, and I finally saw it, just like Daddy said I would. Funny thing is, I didn’t want it anymore.

All I’m saying is that you can run away from a town or a house, but I’m not so sure you can run away from your home.

Daddy said you can see the devil in people’s eyes, but maybe the devil is nothing more than the sadness they carry around inside of them, bottled up so tight that it comes out as pure ugliness.