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
Nobody gets to pick what life gives them
In truth, how much time do any of us really have?
She did know that the journey to happiness was laborious and strewn with seeds of suffering. She guessed that it was probably a place each person had to seek for herself, that each heart had to find on its own.
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.
Forgiving's a choice you make—a gift you give to somebody even if they don't deserve it. It costs nothing, but it makes you feel rich for giving it away.
I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.