Megan Hart famous quotes

But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.
-- Megan Hart

#Hurt #Problem #Ends

There are many things I don't know, but quite a few I do. I know you can't be lost if you know where you are. I know that life is full of precious and fragile things, and not all of them are pretty. I know that the sun follows the moon and makes days, one after another. Time passes. The world turns, and we turn with it, and though we can never go back to the beginning, sometimes, we can start again.
-- Megan Hart

#Moon #World #Sun

When you find someone who makes you smile and laugh, when you find someone who makes you feel safe…you shouldn’t let that person go just because you’re afraid.
-- Megan Hart

#Laughing #Make You Smile #Safe

But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.
-- Megan Hart

#Sunshine #Black #Shadow

The past doesn't change no matter how much time you spend thinking about it. Good and bad all add up to the whole. Take away one piece, no matter how small, and the whole changes. Whether it's optimism, pessimism or fatalism, I don't spend my time wishing for the past to be different so present would be different, too. I control my future with what I choose now.
-- Megan Hart

#Past #Thinking #Optimism

I have seen clouds part for the sun. I have seen rainbows. I have seen flowers in the morning, covered in dew, and I have seen sunsets so brilliant with fire they made me want to weep. And I have seen Dan smile at me, his lips still wet from my kiss, and if I had to choose which sight moved me the most I would say it was that one.
-- Megan Hart

#Morning #Flower #Sunset

One must have sorrow to truly appreciate joy.
-- Megan Hart

#Appreciate #Joy #Sorrow

I could say his body was perfect and every part of it beautiful, because it was. Not because he had no flaws, but because I wanted him so desperately I couldn’t see any.
-- Megan Hart

#Beautiful #Perfect #Body

There seemed to be so much to say, but no words adequate to say it.
-- Megan Hart

#Adequate

Sometimes when things break, you can hold them together for a while with string or glue or tape. Sometimes, nothing will hold what’s broken, and the pieces fly all over, and though you think you might be able to find them all again, one or two will always be missing. I flew apart. I broke. I shattered like a crystal vase dropped on a concrete floor, and pieces of me scattered all over. Some of them I was glad to see go. Some I never wanted to see again.
-- Megan Hart

#Thinking #Two #Broken

There are few times when we know with absolute certainty we are going to do something for the last time. Life has a way of moving in circles, bringing us back to places we didn’t expect and taking us away from those we do. There are too many times we don’t pay close enough attention, and moments are lost in our assumption we’ll have another chance.
-- Megan Hart

#Moving #Circles #Another Chance

This is the truth. I have been in love. I have been in lust. I’ve made good choices and bad ones, I have been smart and I’ve been stupid. But I have never in my life felt the way I do now, here, with Will.
-- Megan Hart

#Smart #Stupid #Choices

It’s okay to struggle to find our place in this world and the person who will take us for who and what we are. Sometimes we dress ourselves in layers that only get peeled away in the end, to leave us as we should be.
-- Megan Hart

#Struggle #World #Layers

We were broken, brittle and fragile. The question was, were we still precious to each other? Or, instead of everything falling into place, had it fallen into pieces?
-- Megan Hart

#Fall #Broken #Pieces

I had no words to give him. No explanation. I didn’t understand it, myself. It scared me, but then so do roller coasters, and I ride them anyway, too.
-- Megan Hart

#Giving #Scared #Roller Coaster

You can't hurt someone who doesn't care about you.
-- Megan Hart

#Hurt #Care #Hurts Someone

You never fall in love with anyone the same way you fell in love with someone else. It's always different, every time, if you're lucky-or cursed-enough to have it happen more than once. But I've never been uncertain about love, not any of the times I found myself in it. Love is always real, even when it doesn't last.
-- Megan Hart

#Falling In Love #Real #Love Is

Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.
-- Megan Hart

#Flower #Smell #Water

Tears disturb and confuse men, but women know the relief they can bring. I didn't cry because I couldn't deal with my life, but because I could.
-- Megan Hart

#Men #Tears #Relief

Can I tell you honestly that I'd rather be in your life as your friend than nothing at all?
-- Megan Hart

#Honestly

You know what the best part of the stars is?" "What's that?" "They're the same no matter what sky you're standing under. I mean...yeah, they might move or look like they're in a different place, but they're the same stars." "Yeah? So?" "So even if you're apart from someone you want to be with, you can look up at the stars and know they're looking at the same ones.
-- Megan Hart

#Stars #Moving #Mean

Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy.
-- Megan Hart

#Grief #Joy #Trying

You don’t have to be sad to miss someone and wish they were still in your life.
-- Megan Hart

#Missing Someone #Missing #Wish

I didn’t fall in love with James. Falling sounds like an accident. Falling hurts. I’d fallen in love with Michael, fallen hard like slipping off a cliff and hitting the rocks below. Falling in love was something I’d vowed never to do again. I chose to love James.
-- Megan Hart

#Hurt #Falling In Love #Rocks

If you want to know how someone really feels, you almost never have to ask.
-- Megan Hart

#Want #Feels

You know what they say. Best revenge is looking good, right?
-- Megan Hart

#Revenge #Best Revenge #Looking Good

And you’re not afraid of it ending?” “Sure I am. But I’d rather have something this good for a little while than have nothing forever.
-- Megan Hart

#Forever #Littles #Not Afraid

I've been hit on plenty of times, mostly by men with little finesse who thought what was between their legs made up for what they lacked between their ears.
-- Megan Hart

#Men #Ears #Legs

Sometimes the picture someone else paints of us is a more accurate portrayal than a reflection. What we see in the mirror is always reversed. A portrait not only allows us to see our own faces, but how it looks to others.
-- Megan Hart

#Reflection #Mirrors #Looks

Bess had become the ocean, always breaking against the rocks but never staying broken. Her love was the ocean, too, endless and always changing, yet forever the same.
-- Megan Hart

#Ocean #Rocks #Broken

He hadn’t been her first lover or the first boy to give her an orgasm. He hadn’t even been the first she’d loved. He’d been the first to turn her inside out with something as simple as a smile. The first to make her doubt herself. He’d taken her deeper than anyone ever had, and yet she hadn’t drowned.
-- Megan Hart

#Taken #Boys #Simple

There's nothing that says you can't change." "Not even if it changes everything else?" I shook my head. "Not even then.
-- Megan Hart

I know everything and nothing about him all at the same time.
-- Megan Hart

#Broken

Sometimes,” he said after a second that lasted a million years, “things get broken. And they can’t be fixed.
-- Megan Hart

#Years #Broken #Sometimes

Sometimes,” Joe said after a bit, “it’s just easier to keep being what everyone expects you to be. Even if that’s what you’re not, anymore.
-- Megan Hart

#Sometimes #Said #Easier

They’re like sharks. Circling. Cute, single guy, good job, nice car. It’s all they know about me.” His tone was light but his expression serious. Maybe that’s because it’s all you show them.” Maybe it’s all they want to see.
-- Megan Hart

#Cute #Jobs #Nice

Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so low?
-- Megan Hart

#Creativity #Artist #Causes

Macy: "Listen, I can't pretend to be the queen of good advice, here. I've had more boyfriends than I can count, and I'm not so sure that's any better than not having any. But I do know this. When you find someone who makes you smile and laugh, when you find someone who makes you feel safe, you shouldn't let that person go just because you're afraid." Elle: "And you're not afraid of it ending?" Macy: "Sure I am, But I'd rather have something this good for a little while than have nothing forever
-- Megan Hart

#Queens #Laughing #Forever

Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. Nobody wants to admit it. We'd all declare we want to be happy, if we could. So why, then, is pain the one thing we most often hold on to? Why are slights and griefs the memories on which we choose to dwell? Is it because joy doesn't last but grief does?
-- Megan Hart

#Pain #Memories #Grief

Scars are proof we can can survive
-- Megan Hart

#Scar #Proof

When everything changes we learn who we really are. What’s really important. What we want most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray.
-- Megan Hart

#Important #Want #Moments

I looked at the cards in my hand, the queen of hearts nestled between the king of clubs and the king of spades. No wonder she was smiling.
-- Megan Hart

#Queens #Kings #Heart

He put my fingertips to his mouth and kissed them. Licked the trace of blood away. Made them clean. Then I knew the truth I had been denying. He made me clean. Dan made me clean and shining and bright. He made me beautiful, and I did not want to lose him.
-- Megan Hart

#Beautiful #Blood #Shining

Sometimes, you turn back. Sometimes, you walk away. And sometimes, you find the place you're meant to be, and you stay there. You find a way to make it work. Whatever it takes.
-- Megan Hart

#Way #Sometimes #Whatever It Takes

The hardest lies to detect are the ones surrounded by truth.
-- Megan Hart

#Lying #Hardest

I knew him, but I don't understand him.
-- Megan Hart

We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him.
-- Megan Hart

#Changed #Understood #Pretense

From the first time you laughed with me, all those months, and all those stories,” Joe said quietly. “They were all you, to me. All of them were you.
-- Megan Hart

#Months #Firsts #Stories

My head's filled up with all the reasons it won't work. And I keep running the figures, over and over, but I can't seem to come up with an answer.
-- Megan Hart

#Running #Answers #Reason

If I'd known it was going to be the last time he'd ever hold me, I'd have paid better attention.
-- Megan Hart

#Lasts #Attention #Hold Me

He was quiet. I said nothing, hoping that maybe, for once, he'd stop pretenting he was okay. Then I could, too. That we could both forget the roles that had so long bound us.
-- Megan Hart

#Long #Roles #Quiet

I've done my best to drive you away, Sadie," he said suddenly. "But you've never left me.
-- Megan Hart

#Done #Said #Sadie

I was trying to replace something I'd come to care about very much with something pretending to be as important.
-- Megan Hart

#Trying #Important #Care

I waited for a long time and there was nothing but the pain of wanting something I couldn't seem to find.
-- Megan Hart

#Pain #Long

I might be alone, but i'm never lonely.
-- Megan Hart

#Lonely #Might

Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up.
-- Megan Hart

#Giving Up #Tasks #Pointless

Love is always real, even when it doesn’t last.
-- Megan Hart

#Real #Love Is #Lasts

We look at each other without saying anything, both of us smiling like idiots. I heart is so full I can’t believe it can possibly still beat without bursting right in front of me. My desire for him is so fierce I’m afraid to stand, because I know my knees will be too weak to hold me up, but there’s more than that. This great and bursting thing inside me is love.
-- Megan Hart

#Believe #Heart #Desire

Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard brings more satisfaction in the end.
-- Megan Hart

#Goal #Perfection #Satisfaction

A good sister is one who won't be embarrassed when you burst into tears in public. A better one will hand you tissues until you stop. The best is the one who will go get you another latte to go with the ginormous chocolate orgy she's already laid in front of you.
-- Megan Hart

#Hands #Chocolate #Tears

Choices. We all make them, sometimes more than once. Sometimes it's the choices we make over and over that define us, but more often it's the choices we don't make.
-- Megan Hart

#Choices #Sometimes

Knowing what you need doesn't always mean you know how to get it, though. I'd spent a long time hiding in my cave. No matter how much I might want to come out into the light, I knew it would hurt my eyes. I was a fool. A fool, but nevertheless too smart not to know I was the architect of my own demise, that it was time to put my past behind me. It was time to stop allowing the white elephants to stand unspoken of in my living room.
-- Megan Hart

#Hurt #Smart #Mean

Foolish. Stupid. I knew it. I knew my reaction was unreasonable, bu the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal said that, and I've always found it to be true.
-- Megan Hart

#Stupid #Heart #Pascal

I do not like that I allowed my past to close me off. I do not like that I let circumstances rob me of the ability to have a normal relationship with a man, to have friends, to be happy. I do not like it, but I had felt myself powerless against it.
-- Megan Hart

#Past #Men #Normal

It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had.
-- Megan Hart

#Fairy Tale #Happy Endings #Fairy

If you're lucky, the friends you make when you're sixteen stay with you for the rest of your life. If you're smart, you know when it's time to let them go.
-- Megan Hart

#Smart #Sixteen #Lucky

All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.
-- Megan Hart

#Stars #Men #People

What are you, Elle? Are you a ghost? Are you an angel or a demon? Because you can’t be real.
-- Megan Hart

#Real #Angel #Ghost

They were all you, to me. All of them were you.
-- Megan Hart

Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It’s those that bring us grief that linger.
-- Megan Hart

#Grief #Fleeting #Good Things

There is so much freedom in not having to choose.
-- Megan Hart

It is such a secret place, the land of tears. That is what the narrator ofThe Little Prince says after the little prince argues with him the first time about matters of consequence. And he was right. My land of tears had been a secret for a very long time.
-- Megan Hart

#Land #Long #Secret