Megan Hart Quotes

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

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

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#3. There had been times when missing him had felt like someone had reached inside her and pulled out the part of her that remembered how to breathe. And times when she'd barely given the memories of him a second's worth of her time.

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#4. 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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#5. Darkness reveals as much as it hides, sometimes.

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

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

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#8. 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.

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.

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#13. 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.

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

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#15. 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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#16. He closed his hand around my wrist and pressed my hand flat against his chest. The way I see it, Elle, scars are proof we can survive.

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#17. 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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#18. Scars are proof we can can survive

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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. We could just go naked. Set a trend." -Nick

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

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

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

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#27. 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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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. You know what they say. Best revenge is looking good, right?

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#31. All I know with utter certainty is this. Dan tamed me. We need each other.
He has become unique to me in all the world.

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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. I know I shouldn't feel guilty for being angry sometimes, or bitter" "Knowing something is beans.

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#37. All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

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#38. 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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#39. Every day," I tell him, "you will miss me either a little less or a little more. Until one day you will wake up and realize you don't miss me at all, or you will find yourself incapable of living without me.

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#40. 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.

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

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

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#43. 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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#44. We are often our own harshest critics

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#45. When you love someone, seeing them in pain can be harder than being in pain yourself.

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

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#47. The hardest lies to detect are the ones surrounded by truth.

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#48. 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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#49. Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard brings
more satisfaction in the end.

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#50. There seemed to be so much to say, but no words adequate to say it.

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#51. 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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#52. 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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#53. But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.

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

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#55. I'd known him less then forty-eight hours and already I'd seen how he looked when he came, tasted his cooking, and had my ass handed to me playing Dance Dance Revolution, and now I was going to practically be living with him.

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#56. 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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#57. 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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#58. I know everything and nothing about him all at the same time.

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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. A woman's orgasm is such a fragile thing, dependant as much upon her mind as on her clitoris.

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#62. 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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#63. 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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#64. 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.

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#65. You know what people do when they have to face something uncomfortable? They blame the thing that makes them feel bad, even if it's not that thing's fault.

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#66. 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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#67. That was the thing about love, though, wasn't it? When you loved somebody, you wanted to give them everything you could. You wanted what was best for them, no matter what. You wanted them to move beyond what was awful and terrible, beyond anything that had ever hurt them.

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

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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. 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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#72. Sometimes the things we want to say the most are the things that should never be said.

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#73. 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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#74. Sometimes people don't need you to answer them. They only need you to help them say what they need to say.

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#75. 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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#76. 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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#77. He had been her sun, the star she circled endlessly. Helpless against the gravity she'd been unable to fight. She'd flown too close and melted her wings made of wax. She'd fallen. Maybe she'd never been meant to fly.

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#78. 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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#79. 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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#80. 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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#81. Love, when it goes, can sometimes burn to ash.
And sometimes it can leave nothing.

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

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#83. 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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#84. 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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#85. 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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#86. 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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#87. 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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#88. He wants to pretend this is all accidental, but for me it isn't a game. I haven't simply let it happen. I'm falling because I jumped, and not because I tripped.

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

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

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#92. You look like a goddess when you come, did you know that?"
"I'm not a goddess."
"Not a goddess. Not an angel. Not a devil. Are you a ghost? Because you can't be real."
"I'm real.

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

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#94. 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.

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#95. 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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#96. 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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#97. 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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#98. 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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#99. But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.

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

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