Susan Solie Patterson
Susan Patterson has a Bachelor of Science/Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was also an All-American swimmer. She is the author of the children’s book Big Words for Little Geniuses, a New York Times bestseller. (Susan Patterson Quotes)
“An irregular heartbeat. In this case it’s probably paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.” And that means…? “It means that her symptoms come and go. They can last from a few minutes to several hours.”
Susan Patterson
Things I Wish I Told My Mother
“Don’t you think you should consider getting rid of your bangs?” That’s the way it’s always been with my mother. She says one thing; I hear something else.”
Susan Patterson
Things I Wish I Told My Mother
“Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.”
Susan Patterson
Things I Wish I Told My Mother
“God be with us this day…watch over us, insure us against danger; protect us from harm. Be ever at our side to light, to guard, to rule and guide us to safety to our journey’s end.”
Susan Patterson
Things I Wish I Told My Mother
“I’m reading, and lo and behold, there it is: my passport. Being used as a bookmark. “I found it!” I yell out. “See? I told you that glass trick would work.”
Susan Patterson
Things I Wish I Told My Mother
“If you lose something, put a glass upside down. Whatever you lost will soon turn up.”
Susan Patterson
Things I Wish I Told My Mother
“It’s a simple procedure called cardioversion. You’re asleep through it. You don’t even remember it when you’re up.”
Susan Patterson
Things I Wish I Told My Mother
“Maybe the most important thing I learned from you: people don’t always give you what you want. They give you what they have to give.”
Susan Patterson
Things I Wish I Told My Mother
“People don’t always give you what you want. They give you what they have to give. But if you stop and think about it, that can be enough.”
Susan Patterson
Things I Wish I Told My Mother
“There’s no good way to die,” she says. “Fast, slow. It’s all heartbreaking. I’m a widow myself.”
Susan Patterson
Things I Wish I Told My Mother
“When we got married, I was thirty-eight. Rob was fifty. When people ask why he never married before, he smiles and says, “I was waiting for Laurie.”
Susan Patterson
Things I Wish I Told My Mother
“You never get used to death,” she says. “We are all here for such a brief time and then it’s over…but never for the ones left behind.”
Susan Patterson
Things I Wish I Told My Mother
“You’re practically seventy…and you still have a type?” “See how you feel when you’re seventy,” she says, laughing.”
Susan Patterson
Things I Wish I Told My Mother
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