Meg Grehan > Quotes

“Not all bad things
Are big bad things
Not all sad things
Are big sad things

Sometimes they just come and go
Just visitors
And we don’t need to be
Afraid of them”
― Meg Grehan, The Deepest Breath

“They fell in love once
when lives aligned

just once

they love
always
but they fell in love
just once
they lived a life with their arms around each other[...]
like something right in the centre of them
knew it would happen
and knew it wouldnt happen again”
― Meg Grehan

“Coming here was a mistake
I know it now
Suddenly
Although I think I probably knew
All along
Or else
I wouldn't have lied to my mum

Good ideas don't need lies
I think

I feel lost
In a way I've never felt lost before

I know exactly where I am
And how I got here
And how to get home

But here I am
In a corner
Lost lost lost

Here I am
In a corner
Surrounded by all the information
All the answers I could ever want
Lost lost lost”
― Meg Grehan, The Deepest Breath

“We have lived
So many lifetimes
Been so many people
We've been
So much
We've done
So much
And it's all stored up
Inside us
And all of them
All the selves we've
been”
― Meg Grehan

“There is a specific type of
Shame
I think
That comes with realising
Exactly how little
You understand yourself
It's
It's embarrassing
One little life to figure out

One little self
But

For us
It's sitting at a piano
And playing
Note for note
with a deftness belonging to someone
You've never met
But who knows you so deeply
A song
You've never heard”
― Meg Grehan, Baby Teeth: a novel in verse

“what do I do with love like this
how do I keep it
how do I hold it”
― Meg Grehan

“I don't like feeling
Anything but
Love
About my mum

It doesn't feel right

But right now
I feel
So many
Things
About my
Mum

I feel love
Always love
But underneath
I feel sad
And a little
Disappointed
I feel worried
And anxious
And mostly
I feel
Distant

Like someone grabbed us
Each of us
And pulled and pulled
Until there was a gap
Where there's never been a gap
Until there was
Distance
Where usually
We were
Together
Side by side

Like someone
Pulled us apart
And I'm afraid
I'm afraid
That that person
Was me”
― Meg Grehan, The Deepest Breath

“And I wish I could kiss her
And feel only
What I feel
Not the heartbreak of lives forgotten by everyone else
But a sad soul in my chest”
― Meg Grehan

“her favourites are paintings
I've never really looked at
Sculptures I've wondered past
Acquaintances
Not friends
But she looks at them
Like they're family
And I tell them
It's a pleasure to meet them
Properly
And that I''ll be sure to visit again”
― Meg Grehan

“I find more
Learn more
And I give to them all
I give it all
All the memories
the half dreams
habits and talents and selves
[...] to these solid people
sealed lips and cold hands
[...] these sad selves inside me
living new lives
in beautiful bodies
sculpted by talented hands
finally being seen once again”
― Meg Grehan

“With Chloe
You can go anywhere
Or be anything
In an instant
Without even leaving your favorite bench
Chloe has a whole world in her
And she's so good at sharing it”
― Meg Grehan

“Henry... stared at every painting
like they were the gravestone
of someone he once loved”
― Meg Grehan

“They asked me
with tenderness they usually reserved
only for each other
[...] to remember
how they loved
hoe they held each other's fingers
how they held each other's gaze
how they chose each other
over and over
prioritised each other
cared for each other
how they grew together
lived together”
― Meg Grehan

“I have always
been more honest
in the dark”
― Meg Grehan

“A stranger in my veins
quick and sure
It's new[...]
I have never loved
Like this”
― Meg Grehan

“I stand outside our house
For too long
I stand until
The door opens
And Freddie yells
Asking
If i'm done being dramatic yet
And I say no
Five more minutes please
And he scoffs
And slams the door”
― Meg Grehan

“we just make
a lumpy cake
with grainy icing
and we write
welco
because we made the icing letters too big”
― Meg Grehan

“And soon the house
Is full of flowers
And Freddie is
"Begging, Immy, I am begging"
Me to ask her out
But I don't
I won't
I can't

I do”
― Meg Grehan, Baby Teeth: a novel in verse

“there is a statue
in the forest...
tall and beautiful
cracks cover her arms
she is dust and moss and dirt
vines can grip her
wind can shake her
she changes
and if i tried to give myself to her
she would not take it
so I take her into me
her wildness
her cracks and crumbles
she is me
we are each other
we are broken and still standing”
― Meg Grehan

“We just try
to remember
to hold pieces of each other
safe inside ourselves
so after life
our togetherness
is what makes us three
incomplete people
as close to complete as we
could ever be”
― Meg Grehan

“we hold whole histories for each other
identities and memories
relationships and losses and mistakes and
victories and versions
shame and pride and lightness and the deepest darknesses”
― Meg Grehan

“I wonder if tonight is a night for sleep
I hope it is
I ask for it to be
But it doesn't respond”
― Meg Grehan