Megan Hart Quotes

#1. I murmur something that sounds like "goodbye" but tastes like "hello.

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#2. The past is gone, Claire. It's like a sand castle washed away by the waves. We can remember what it looked like, but even if we build it again, it won't be the exactly the same.

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#3. I love you," I told him. "And all of this, our life, is everything I wished to have but wasn't sure I could keep. I never felt like that with Alex, James. I always knew that what we shared wouldn't last. He never belonged to me. Not the way you do.

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#4. Sometimes the things we want to say the most are the things that should never be said.

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#5. Naveen: Oh, come on. Throw a guy a bone.
Elisabeth: Are you a dog?
Naveen: Are you a bitch?
That was how we became friends.

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#6. Do you think he would?"
"I think he'd give his left nut to get in your pants."
"Very nice," I told him. "So elegantly put."
Dan laughed and leaned forward to nuzzle my neck again. "Yes, Elle, I think Jack would love to fuck you.

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#7. If it's true, does it have to be nice? If you have something true to say, but you don't say it because you just want to be nice, isn't that sort of like a lie?

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#8. Sometimes," he said after a second that lasted a million years, "things get broken. And they can't be fixed.

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#9. You've got the sexiest voice. You make everything you say sound like it tastes good coming out of your mouth.

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

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#11. 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.

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#12. Let him go. Let one of them go. Knowing it and doing it, two separate
accomplishments. Let one man go. The question had to be, which one?

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#13. A woman's orgasm is such a fragile thing, dependant as much upon her mind as on her clitoris.

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#14. I closed my eyes against the sudden
sorrow that someone I knew so well should be someone who consistently brought me so much grief.

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#15. Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for. - Ann Patchett, from the essay The Sense of an Ending

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#16. I know everything and nothing about him all at the same time.

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#17. Don't use the buckle," she told him with a laugh, her eyes closed, head bent.
"I haven't beaten a woman with my belt before, Simone. That doesn't mean I don't have any clue about how to do it.

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#18. Right and wrong, good and bad, the lines are blurred when it comes to matters of the heart. Anyone who has never felt that has no right to judge, and anyone who ever has won't have to.

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#19. She was so far from his type she might as well have been another species.

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#20. 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.

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#21. If you want to know how someone really feels, you almost never have to ask.

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#22. But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.

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

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

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#25. I won't say it's okay, because it's not. If you want to break up with me, Elle, then do it. But I'm not going to make it easy for you.

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#26. 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.

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#27. I feel the weight of his gaze all over me, covering me like a blanket.

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#28. It was all about control, in the end, and I had it.

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#29. The well of my heart is a very deep place,
and at the bottom, it's dark.
He was my ocean, and I didn't know
if I would drown until I learned
how well I could swim.

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#30. Sex makes bumble-tongued fools even out of the most eloquent, but the beauty of it is that it also tunes our ears to hear the meaning of words that, spoken under other circumstances, would make us laugh or cry or frown.

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#31. But confidence bred confidence, that's what her dad had always told her back in the days when she'd been a skinny, flat-chested nerd girl with a boy-intimidating vocabulary and no hope of being asked to the prom.

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#32. 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.

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#33. 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.

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#34. How are we going to say goodbye?" Will asks in a sleepfurry voice.
He means now. I mean forever. "I don't want to."
His sleepy smile slaughters me. If I was standing, it would have sent me to my knees.

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#35. 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.

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#36. And what was dancing but fucking with your clothes on?

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#37. Love, when it goes, can sometimes burn to ash.
And sometimes it can leave nothing.

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#38. Memory can refuse to let you forget what you'd like to and run away with what you want to remember. It's an unreliable bitch, or your best friend. Sometimes, it's both at once.

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#39. You look gorgeous, Elle, and you don't act like a gorgeous woman does."
"I don't? How do I act?"
"You act like an angel. But you fuck like a deomon. Don't you.

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

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#41. 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.

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#42. You can't hurt someone who doesn't care about you.

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#43. Desire didn't always mean a choice was easier to make. Sometimes it was harder, because it meant so much more.

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#44. We could just go naked. Set a trend." -Nick

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#45. Much is said about brilliance. Less attention is paid to those who live next to it. Spouses, children, assistants ... if anyone thinks of us at all, it's generally to remark upon how lucky we are to bask in the light of genius.

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#46. I hold on to him longer than is necessary, but then I let him go. Of course I let him go; there's no other choice. He has a life, and so do I. No matter what I want, the sun has come up and the world will not fade away.

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#47. Scars are proof we can can survive

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#48. 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?

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#49. I knew I'd sounded bitter, but I didn't bend even when guilt threatened to throttle me with its bony fingers. I hope it was worth it, Mom.

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#50. Can I tell you honestly that I'd rather be in your life as your friend than nothing at all?

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#51. Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.

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

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#53. 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.

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#54. Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up.

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#55. I have suffered the touch of some and embraced it from others.

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#56. 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.

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#57. And I did," Alex said. "I let her go. Because I did love her, and I did want her to be happy."

Hart, Megan (2015-03-01). Vanilla (Kindle Location 4400). MIRA. Kindle Edition.

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#58. No matter how hard you worked, there was always going to be somebody out there who thought you were fuckup.

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#59. I was trying to replace something I'd come to care about very much with something pretending to be as important.

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#60. There's no foreplay quite like youthful exploration, when each undone button is cause for exaltation.

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#61. We are often our own harshest critics

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#62. 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.

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#63. You don't have to be sad to miss someone and wish they were still in your life.

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#64. Crazy is a state of mind usually interpreted by other people.

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#65. I might be alone, but i'm never lonely.

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#66. Time has that funny way of smoothing out the rough edges of things, even ones that hurt a little bit. Or a lot.

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#67. I know I shouldn't feel guilty for being angry sometimes, or bitter" "Knowing something is beans.

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#68. Sometimes when you break things, 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

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#69. Bess hadn't ever been good with change. She'd never been good with taking leaps of faith, or risks or changes. When something worked, she tended to stick with it.
Even when something didn't.

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#70. 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.

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#71. I love you,' I told him.
It was not the first time, but I didn't want it to be the last.
Austin gathered me close and breathed into my hair, his big hands hot and restless on my back. 'I love you, too.

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#72. You know what they say. Best revenge is looking good, right?

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#73. 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.

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#74. This one says they'll place your 'little blessing in disguise' with a local 'Christ-oriented family.' What about the non-Christ-oriented families? Don't they deserve the right to adopt kids?

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#75. What are you, Elle? Are you a ghost? Are you an angel or a demon? Because you can't be real.

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#76. Love is always real, even when it doesn't last.

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#77. She talked, he nodded. She was satisfied. He was oblivious.

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

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#79. Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It's those that bring us grief that linger.

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#80. The world won't wait for you to change, not ever. You either take a chance or you stay in one place while everything else goes on.

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#81. Where'd you find her?
He picked me out of a catalog.

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#82. I never think of nothing. The closest I come to a blank mind is when I am counting, fucking, or drinking. The rest of the time, my thoughts are like a hamster on a wheel, running endlessly but getting nowhere.

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#83. He was the loveliest sight she'd ever seen.

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#84. 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.

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#85. Navigating this new world made Sunny feel like Dorothy stepping out from her black-and-white house into a world of color so bright it didn't seem real. Everything in this world seems like a dream.

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#86. This book is for those who would rather be haunted and driven mad than left behind.

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#87. 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.

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#88. I knew him, but I don't understand him.

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#89. Whatever task you're set, find some way to love it. Sunny wondered if Josiah's words applied to standing with a face of stone so the person in front of her wouldn't know how much she wanted to scream.

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#90. 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.

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#91. There is nothing crueler than the person who doesn't want you enough to keep you, but who doesn't love you enough to let you go.

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#92. Sleeping. The word came out with an adorable lack of anything resembling an L, closer to something you'd do with a broom than in a bed.

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#93. Be careful," he said.
Bess looked at him. "I think it's too late for that."
He smiled. Then he kissed her, right there on the porch where the whole world could see. Right on the mouth. Right where she wanted.

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#94. There is so much freedom in not having to choose.

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#95. Will cries out, low, a murmur of blue and green and gold. The syllables of my name float between us. I've never seen my name that way, in those colors, not from any other voice.

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#96. 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.

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#97. Some things never left you, no matter how much you wanted them to.

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#98. One must have sorrow to truly appreciate joy.

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#99. Sunny could think of lots of reasons about why the angel was crying, but the one that felt the best to her was that the angel wept so Sunny didn't have to.

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#100. Because my life's been so much richer for having had her in it, you see. And I know I'll see her again. I believe I will. I wouldn't trade one minute of what we had together even if it meant I'd never have to feel this way.

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