Meagan Church > Quotes

“Life is a continual process of letting go, but this I choose to hold on to. This I will never surrender, because I remember. Always and forever, I remember.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“Of course, sometimes we forget that dreams and nightmares are two sides of the same coin”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“If you, Dear Reader, have ever felt unseen, unheard, or untethered from the world around you, I hope this story reminds you that your existence, your presence, your voice, your heart is enough. You deserve to be here. You always have. Take care of yourself and each other.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“How long had that tree stood there? How much had it seen? How many seasons had come and gone as it stood rooted in that one place, growing and dropping leaves, rebirthing and releasing year after year after year? How many times had the first beams of sunshine illuminated its languid branches and shimmered its dancing leaves, casting wavering shapes that shifted with the changing hours? I used to resist the dark places, but now I knew that the fullness of life includes all of it: the light, the dark, and the shadows that creep between.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“They say women forget, but we don’t. We tuck away the throes deep in our bones, forever carrying the memories in the recesses of our bodies.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“Sometimes the memories we keep are the ones we’d rather forget. But they have a way of finding us in the night, whispering along the wind so we remember.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“Sometimes family's not who you've been given. It's who you choose.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“The road home can be a long and winding drive, a labyrinth of memories and mistakes.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“I guess that's the thing about coming home; it's not the home that's changed, it's the person coming back who has.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“I pulled my blanket around me, thinking of how my life had been like a quilt—remnants of moments stitched together, some beautiful enough I’d want to be reminded of, others I’d rather discard into the scrap pile.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“Life is a continual process of letting go”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“We think we are the superior species, and yet there is so much we don’t know. Like the songs of birds. We hear the tune, but we don’t know the words. We only know what we want to hear.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“There are moments in life that speed up too fast, go by more quickly than we want--the last moments of a painted sky at sunset before darkness comes, the final purr of a cat drifting off to sleep, the contagious laugh of a loved one. But then there are moments that slow down despite us wanting them to go away.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“were moments with Wesley when I’d look at him and see him differently. He was always growing and changing”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“After all it's not until something worse comes along that we can look back and realize we had something good all along. If only we hadn't been so foolish as to miss it at the time.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“Strength isn't the loud and obvious. Strength is often camouflaged in the quiet, reserved places where most people wouldn't think to look. It's grown in the moments when we give up things along the way.”
― Meagan Church, The Girls We Sent Away

“Together does not mean sameness. He didn’t know—wouldn’t know—what it felt like inside my body and mind. He would never understand existing in a body that fought itself. He would never know the urgency to live as the clock ticked louder, faster, time suddenly having a different quality to it. He wouldn’t know what it was to be the light caught in a jar, watching the lid turn and tighten, each breath one closer to the final, last suffocating one.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“But sorrys don’t heal the wounds that gather within the soul and make us the people we never knew we’d be.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“Of course”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“he made me believe in the possibility of love at first sight when all I hoped for was someone to belong to.”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“There's a liturgy to each of our lives, whether we realize it or not.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“but in the shadow moments of the night”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“This seemed to be the place where people told me their “I’m sorrys.” But sorrys don’t heal the wounds that gather within the soul and make us the people we never knew we’d be.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“realize”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“The pills pushed me beyond the surface of myself”
― Meagan Church, The Mad Wife

“Strength isn’t in the loud and obvious. Strength is often camouflaged in the quiet, reserved places where most people wouldn’t think to look. It’s grown in the moments when we give up things along the way.”
― Meagan Church, The Girls We Sent Away

“guess that’s the thing about coming home; it’s not the home that’s changed, it’s the person coming back who has.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“Sometimes the strength you need comes in silence.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“That’s the trouble with planting live things to remember the dead; sometimes what you plant doesn’t live as long as you’d like either.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

“I fell asleep there in the quiet rustling of the tree branches that swayed in the breeze. I slept alongside the souls of those I'd never known, as the stars sparkled overhead like glitter and the crickets sang their song to the Carolina girl in their midst.”
― Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl