Lurlene McDaniel
Lurlene McDaniel
Lurlene McDanielis an American author who has written more than 70 young adult books. She is well known for writing about young adults struggling with mortality and chronic illness, a career that began as a therapeutic way to deal with the trauma when her son, then 3, was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. Her characters have grappled with cancer, diabetes, organ failure, and the deaths of loved ones through disease or suicide. She is a graduate of the University of South...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth5 April 1944
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
When my grandmother was alive, she used to tell me that every time God creates a soul in heaven, he creates another to become its special mate. And that once we're born, we begin our search for our soul mate, the one person who's the perfect fit for our mind and body. They lucky oens find each other.
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.
I like to tell young people - you know one in four children die by their own hands - no matter how bad things seem, just wait a day, wait a week. Life will turn around.
In truth, I don't want to be there. I don't want to see the light go out of my brother's eyes.
If it's possible to send a message from heaven, I'll get one to you.
I'll cover you in flowers someday, Julie-girl.
I have known some magnificent young people who died very young but had wonderful lives and inspired many people by their short existence.
The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the shape of the letter U. I love you.
Sisters are made by living everyday with each other and wearing each other down until the rough spots are smooth. They're made by sharing secrets you'd never tell mom, and out of doing things for each other just because you feel like it, not because you have to. I guess you could say sisters are 'grown,' not manufactured, in a very special place called a family.
So long as one person remembers you, you'll never really be dead.
I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.
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.
If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.
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.