No one thinks much about ...

No one thinks much about their ability to breathe; they just do it. It's when a person can't breathe, that they suddenly realize they'd been doing something truly marvelous all along.
 Susan Meissner

Quotes from the same author

I used to think mercy meant showing kindness to someone who didn't deserve it, as if only the recipient defined the act. The girl in between has learned that mercy is defined by its giver. Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.
 Susan Meissner
Our flaws are obvious, yet we are loved and able to love, if we choose, because there is that bit of the divine still smoldering in us.
 Susan Meissner
We moved wordlessly from one room to another, from the room of the dead to the room where time lay in pages everywhere I looked.
 Susan Meissner