Megan Collins > Quotes

“It’s hard to hold grudges against someone who can’t remember what they did to earn them.”
― Megan Collins, The Family Plot

“My time is already worthy, just by being mine, and I can use it to do the things I love: laughing with friends, reading good books, listening to Taylor Swift, finding ways to ease people’s burdens. And who knows what else I’ll discover about myself when I’m not worrying over a relationship or stressing about romantic prospects. Who knows what else I’ll become. Even if my worst fear comes to fruition, even if I’m alone in a hospital during my final moments, at least I’ll know that I actually lived. That I loved and cherished myself while I did.”
― Megan Collins, Cross My Heart

“It comes down to a simple truth: it’s easier, sometimes, to be miserable in love than it is to be alone.”
― Megan Collins, Cross My Heart

“But don’t we all have darkness? Pitch-black parts of ourselves that even those who love us can’t see?”
― Megan Collins, The Family Plot

“I fell hard for forever, used it to forgive almost anything.”
― Megan Collins, Cross My Heart

“It was creative”
― Megan Collins, The Winter Sister

“People say that phrase”
― Megan Collins, Cross My Heart

“There’s the truth, which is what literally happened. And then there’s the Truth—what emotionally happened. So much of poetry exists in that capital T.”
― Megan Collins, Cross My Heart

“Sienna thinks cats are reincarnated serial killers;”
― Megan Collins, Thicker Than Water

“The Instagram posts from college friends, every month a new engagement. The brides at work who all had someone to go home to. So I get why Daphne clung to Morgan, even when she saw his work as “theft,” as a violation. It comes down to a simple truth: it’s easier, sometimes, to be miserable in love than it is to be alone.”
― Megan Collins, Cross My Heart

“I know better than most the way dark thoughts intrude, the way a broken heart can break your brain a little, too.”
― Megan Collins, Cross My Heart

“I was surprised how much I still loved it, even if there was a painful edge to that love, a jagged breath caught in my throat. But that’s true of all love, isn’t it? There’s always some part of it that hurts.”
― Megan Collins, Cross My Heart

“Your trust was a gift that he refused to handle with care. I see your openness, your willingness to be vulnerable, and I think you’re wonderful for that.”
― Megan Collins, Cross My Heart

“What does a mother feel in her bones when her daughter stops breathing?”
― Megan Collins, The Winter Sister

“That’s what I’ve been grieving, all these months. The loss of him, yes, but maybe even more: the loss of partnership. The loss of tables for two and a permanent plus-one.”
― Megan Collins, Cross My Heart

“But better isn’t the same as right.”
― Megan Collins, Cross My Heart

“Her face was soft between my palms, but as we deepened the kiss, I felt the shift of her jawbone, reminding me that beneath that soft skin was a skull so easily crushed.”
― Megan Collins, Cross My Heart

“Love is love. You can’t just kick it to the curb”
― Megan Collins, The Winter Sister

“Holding on to something so tightly that you know it can’t leave you. I don’t know if you’ve ever felt that kind of desperation to keep something you love before”
― Megan Collins, The Winter Sister

“it’s why people need copywriters in the first place, and the act of it—translating complicated, nuanced thoughts into words that are simple and succinct—is as soothing to me as tidying a messy room.”
― Megan Collins, Thicker Than Water

“All I can say is: the beginning was so blindingly beautiful, it kept me from seeing the end.”
― Megan Collins, Cross My Heart

“Memory Lane is a difficult road to walk.”
― Megan Collins, The Winter Sister

“But Edith and I know: breakups are more than heartache. They derail the life you thought you had—which only throws everything else off track. Your plans for the future. Your routines. Your sense of worth. Even once the dust settles, you’re left with disorienting fog. Internal chaos. And what’s a person to do with that?”
― Megan Collins, Cross My Heart

“And even better than all that, what I’ve craved in every relationship, what seems so easy but is actually extravagant: the simple pleasure of sharing space—a bed, a couch, a home—blanketed by silence that doesn’t feel like an absence or a gap, but a presence and fullness all its own.”
― Megan Collins, Cross My Heart

“I’d stopped seeing her as a withered plant that could be watered and sunshined back to life. Instead”
― Megan Collins, The Winter Sister

“And once, he wrote that Taylor Swift is the Sylvia Plath of our time, a sentence that had me swooning.”
― Megan Collins, Cross My Heart