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 in Summer At Willow Lake

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About Susan Wiggs

Susan Wiggs (born May 17, 1958) is an American author of historical and contemporary romance novels.

More quotations from Susan Wiggs

Love wasn't love if she had to try too hard to feel it.

—Susan Wiggs in Summer At Willow Lake

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 in Summer At Willow Lake

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When you're with the person you love, you're home.

—Susan Wiggs in The Winter Lodge

More quotations tagged with “breathing”

When industrial pollutants finally make the air unbreathable, we will be advised to cover the cities over with plastic domes and air-condition them. Technological optimism is the snake oil of urban industrialism.

—Theodore Roszak

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And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

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I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

—Sylvia Plath

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