Top 47 Megan Miranda Quotes
#1. Intention is nice, but it's a thing sometimes based more on hope than on reality.
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#2. Funny how everything can change in an instant. From death to life. From empty to full. From darkness to light.
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#3. I wasn't sure who I was most scared of at the moment. The stranger I was learning about too quickly, or the woman I'd known my entire life that was quickly becoming a stranger.
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#4. We were a town full of fear, searching for answers. But we were also a town full of liars.
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#5. I thought that this must be what purgatory was like. Can't go forward. Can't go back. Awaiting some official judgment.
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#6. Here were thirty-two guards on the island, and I escaped.
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#7. I hated that I felt jealous. Hated it. It's not like I'd been on my own waiting for him, just like he hadn't been waiting alone for me. We had lived, for two years. Made choices and mistakes, had good days and bad days.
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#8. A cut. That's what I felt. Words can cut, slice, like a razor.
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#9. The darkness lives in everyone. She knew this better than anyone. Everyone had two faces, and she looked deep into us until she found it.
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#10. I stood, my limbs shaking with adrenaline. "Oh, don't do this now. Don't bring this up now.
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#11. You want to believe you're not the saddest person in the world.
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#12. But the truth is that the only reason I could understand what I was feeling in that moment was because I had spent years loving her.
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#13. Then there was this empty silence-a hole in the noisy crowd. Troy watched me, Dad watched Troy watching me, and I watched Dad watching Troy watching me. I cleared my throat and said, It's getting late.
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#14. I'm not athletic and have no desire to work out, so I watch what I eat. Correction: I eat what I want and feel guilty about it later.
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#15. Time isn't running out. It's not even real," he said, and I knew I had lost him - he was lost, circling in his own mind. "It's just a measure of distance we made up to understand things. Like an inch. Or a mile.
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#16. If you had one day left to live, what would you do?
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#17. There is nothing more dangerous, nothing more powerful, nothing more necessary and essential for survival than the lies we tell ourselves. I
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#18. When I went from feeling nothing to everything and couldn't stop screaming because it turned out the everything was blinding pain.
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#19. I miss it like an ex-con misses the other inmates.
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#20. Missing girls had a way of working their way into someone's head. You couldn't help but see them in everyone - how temporary and fragile we might be. One moment here, and the next, nothing more than a photo staring from a storefront window.
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#21. The house felt different. Unsafe, unknown, too many possibilities existing all at once. Too many voices whispered back at me from the walls.
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#22. The first time I died, I didn't see God. No light at the end of the tunnel. No haloed angels. No dead grandparents. To be fair, I probably wasn't a solid shoo-in for Heaven. But, honestly, I kind of assumed I'd make the cut.
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#23. My soul was not meant to be in a cage. Not then, and not now.
-Alina Chase
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#24. I hadn't known that a light could be a feeling and a sound could be a color and a kiss could be both a question and an answer. And that heaven could be the ocean or a person or this moment or something else entirely.
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#25. We're more than just the history of our soul. More than our DNA. More than our past lives. We're the choices we've made in this life. Every one of them, giving us purpose.
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#26. People were like Russian nesting dolls - versions stacked inside the latest edition. But they all still lived inside, unchanged, just out of sight.
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#27. Our friendship just kind of fizzled, like a sparkler burning down to your fingers. By the time you realize you were being burned, it was too late - the damage done, the spark already extinguished.
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#28. Do they not realize they have made me in her likeness? I think of what June is trying to lead me toward. What do they think I will do with it when I have no other options?
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#29. The monster made him do it. It lived in the woods, and this was its home, and it would speak to you only in a whisper that sounded like your own echo.
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#30. Because the thing about standing here in the middle of the mountains with the rain coming down, in a house your grandfather built, is that it's too easy to notice how insignificant you are. How quickly you might go from something to nothing.
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#31. And then I started laughing. Horrible, really. But I was laughing. Because of all the things they could say about me, equal parts horrible and true, this was so far from the mark it was funny.
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#32. I wanted to rewind. Go back. Tell Decker to take the long way around. Go back even further. Ask Decker to stay inside with me. I would have told him something important, and it would've mattered. Before all this, it would've mattered.
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#33. If you pretend something hard enough, could it become real?
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#34. We were in a pit. Fitting. This was, after all, my hell. This pit around the lake. The lake that had taken so much. My friendship with Decker. My humanity. Quite nearly my life. And I was so angry with it. I wasn't scared anymore. I was furious.
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#35. I wasn't athletic and had no desire to work out, so I watched what I ate. Correction: I ate what I wanted and felt guilty about it later.
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#36. The past, boxed up and stacked out of sight. But never too far away
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#37. I think ... I think its always been you who was dying,- Delaney
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#38. It wasn't in church but in moments like this when I maybe believed in God or something like that. Some order to the chaos, some meaning. That we collide with the people we need, that we meet the ones who will love us, that there's some underlying reason to everything.
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#39. My brain scrambled to make room for the existene of these people. Grandparents I'd never known. They went from hypothetical, empty memories to blurry, unformed shapes in my head. Dead one second, alive the next.
Kind of like me.
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#40. I feel like the whole world is off balance. Like I'm losing my shit. Like there's this cliff and I don't even realize I'm on the edge.
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#41. But the simple truth was that when a girl like Corinne loves you, you don't ask why. You just hope it doesn't change. Tyler
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#42. I breathed in deeply, feeling immediately at ease. I loved the smell of books. I kept breathing in until I felt too light, like I was inhaling all the knowledge from the books and there was no place for the information to go.
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#44. I weigh my words before I say them. They're one thing I do have control over. And so I am purposeful with them. Deliberate. I decide what to give and what to hide. I watch for reactions. I study their impact.
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#45. Maybe hell was just an absence of something. A void waiting to be filled.
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#46. That hell can be temporary. That there's a way out.
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#47. Who would win in a fight? The past or the future? The past. Every time. It was relentless.
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