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.

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.

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.

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

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.

From every ending comes a new beginning.

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.

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.

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.

I have always been amazed guys read my books and seem to enjoy them. Because I've raised boys, I like to think I can get inside a guy's mind. I try and make the boys talk like guys, sound like guys and react like guys.

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.

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

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.

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

Well, in Angel of Hope, Amber ends up going in her sister's stead. The focus of that book and the next one coming out, Angel of Love, is how she finds her way out of her sister's shadow and into herself. That's really what those two novels are based on.

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

I wrote the book Don't Die, My Love as I was going through radiation, so it certainly has an air of authenticity about it because I was there. I think all of my books took on kind of a deeper tone when the lady who wrote about cancer all of a sudden had cancer. I'm doing well. I went through it all and they said, 'You're fine."

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

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.

I created a character whose motives were pure and good and she was going to go out and save the whole world. But the truth is, you can't save the whole world, but you can save one. And that was the whole thrust of the novel - to save just one.

I wanted to show what it's really like for 98 percent of the world's population [in the third world]. Plus, I also see there are an awful lot of young people out there doing good things, and I wanted to give them a platform.