Meagan Brandy > Quotes

“Fear not the fall, but the life that comes from having never leaped at all.” I smile through my tears. “I’ll always leap if the jump leads me to you, Noah Riley. Always.” “And forever.” “I swear.”
― Meagan Brandy, Say You Swear

“I’ve known that girl was worth the world since the moment I met her.”
― Meagan Brandy, Say You Swear

“If she isn’t mine in the end, I’ll still be hers.”
― Meagan Brandy, Say You Swear

“Memories don’t die when the possibilities do. They morph into pain. Pain you have to decide to feed or fight.”
― Meagan Brandy, Say You Swear

“If someone tries to hurt you, I need you to tell me.” “I can’t do that.” He pushes closer, his expression angrier. “Why not?” “Because I’m not your problem.” “Be my problem.”
― Meagan Brandy, Boys of Brayshaw High

“So next time you ask, be sure because I won't deny you again." "Say you swear.”
― Meagan Brandy, Say You Swear

“I’m a smart man, Juliet,” he whispers, his gaze dropping to my lips. “Only a fool would let you go once they had you where they wanted you.”
― Meagan Brandy, Say You Swear

“I want someone’s all. I want someone’s all and absolutely nothing less.”
― Meagan Brandy, Say You Swear

“If I’m Romeo and she’s Juliet, maybe this is the fate I put on us that very first day. Love forbidden, but in our story, we’re forbidden by fate. Maybe I was the placeholder, as Mason wondered. Maybe I’m not the man of her dreams but the understudy who did the noble work. Who befriended a broken girl. Who showed her what it meant to matter to a man, how it felt to be loved. She knows now that she’s worth the world and deserves even more.”
― Meagan Brandy, Say You Swear

“Falling in love with me didn’t mean she fell out of love with him. It meant she loved us both. I want her to love me more.”
― Meagan Brandy, Say You Swear

“Careful big man,” I whisper. “That sounds a lot like a king falling. The ground isn’t soft at my feet.”
― Meagan Brandy, Boys of Brayshaw High

“The fact of the matter is, in the end, the only way to walk away ... is to make sure there’s nothing you’re reluctant to leave behind.”
― Meagan Brandy, Boys of Brayshaw High

“Fear not the fall, but the life that comes from having never leaped at all.”
― Meagan Brandy, Say You Swear

“I want my girl back. I want the future I dared to dream about. I want her.”
― Meagan Brandy, Say You Swear

“I’m in love with her, and if I’m right, which I hope to hell I am, she’s on her way to loving me right back. If she could, I’d need nothing else. Just her.”
― Meagan Brandy, Say You Swear

“People who can lay their heads down and fall asleep with ease don’t understand the struggle or how bad those of us who can’t wish we could. They don’t know what it’s like to lay awake at night and replay minutes of your life, wondering what you could or should have done differently. Or how you could be better at something or fearing what comes next. Sometimes it’s even as simple as playing a movie back in your head, anything to fill the hours.”
― Meagan Brandy, Boys of Brayshaw High

“Don’t play, baby.” “Tell me I am,” I rasp. When his brows dip, I continue. “Your baby.” My eyes hit his. “For reals, not for fakes. For keeps, not for now.” The heavy thump of his heart beats against my hand, and I flatten my palm there, not wanting to miss the way it’s climbing. “Pixie.” He leans in, brushing his lips over mine. “You are. You’ve been,” he stresses. “Even when you had no fuckin’ clue... you were my baby.”
― Meagan Brandy, Fake It 'Til You Break It

“Baby, you beat out every woman everywhere, even in your sleep.”
― Meagan Brandy, Say You Swear

“I can feel you checking me out.” He doesn’t bother turning to confirm. “Yeah, well.” I grip the countertop and lean forward a little. “When the man above blessed us with wine, we indulged. It’s only fair his other masterpieces get the same treatment.”
― Meagan Brandy, Say You Swear

“Sweet, Arianna, my Noah became your Noah, and honey, he was your everything, just as you are his. You fell for him right back, and you never got up.”
― Meagan Brandy, Say You Swear

“I need you to know that as much as you’re hurting right now, as much as you’ve been, that there is a man out there who is hurting just as fucking much, with every breath he takes.” I suck in a choppy breath, and my brother’s eyes gloss over. “And not for himself, but for you.” His attention falls to my stomach. “For both of you.”
― Meagan Brandy, Say You Swear

“We have to wait for our time, create our own fucking life after we let go of everything in the one we were forced into.”
― Meagan Brandy, Boys of Brayshaw High

“You don’t have to be looking to find the best fucking thing for you. Sometimes all you have to do is open your eyes and realize it found you first.”
― Meagan Brandy, Fake It 'Til You Break It

“To the one with many friends who forever feels alone... You’re not. Hold strong. Someone will come and fill your whole world as they need you to fill theirs.”
― Meagan Brandy, Fake It 'Til You Break It

“she’s not on the same page. Still... When I think of her, I want more. When I touch her, I hate to stop. When I look at her, I see mine.”
― Meagan Brandy, Fake It 'Til You Break It

“You’ve got it all wrong, baby. Loving you doesn’t make me weak. It makes me unstoppable.”
― Meagan Brandy, Reign of Brayshaw

“It’s hard when you realize you simply aren’t enough for someone, and it’s even harder when everyone you’re connected to is connected to that person as well.”
― Meagan Brandy, Say You Swear

“This recipe book is for you, my sweet Noah, and inside, you will find me in memory. My heart is so full, as I hope that one day your wife and children’s bellies will be as you turn the page and create for them all the meals I created for you. And just like that, you’ll find I’m forever with you, alive in aromas that shall one day fill your home as they filled ours.”
― Meagan Brandy, Say You Swear

“Say you swear.”
― Meagan Brandy, Say You Swear

“Marry me, Juliet. We can wait until you’re done with school, or we can drive to a chapel right now. I don’t care. Marry me.”
― Meagan Brandy, Say You Swear