Melissa Ferguson > Quotes

“Waiting impatiently for something that will inevitably happen either way is a waste of time. Enjoy the journey, not just the destination.”
― Melissa Ferguson, Meet Me in the Margins

“All this time I thought I had something. An idea. A spark. All this time, I thought, I may just be able to do this! I may just have a writer’s soul after all! But what am I, really? Just a girl, sitting in a coffee shop, who’s completely deluded herself.”
― Melissa Ferguson, Meet Me in the Margins

“Yes, there should be fundraisers and shoebox drives and hard work, too, but it’s also about slowing down. Truly being present.”
― Melissa Ferguson, Meet Me in the Margins

“Our eyes hold, and for a long moment we just smile. A warmth spreads through me. I can’t define it exactly, but if it were a scent, it’d be eggnog sprinkled with nutmeg. If a sound, it’d be the footsteps of a dear friend on your front porch.”
― Melissa Ferguson, Meet Me in the Margins

“The perfect date doesn’t have anything to do with me. It’s entirely about finding a setting that highlights who she is and seeking to learn about each other within that amenable atmosphere.”
― Melissa Ferguson, Meet Me in the Margins

“And anyway, romance isn’t just about attraction. It’s about companionship. You don’t see old married couples who’ve been through two world wars and five babies together making out on a bench when they’re ninety and think to yourself, Now THAT’S what it’s all about. You see the way they hold hands, the way they serve each other scrambled eggs on plates they got on their wedding day, the way they shuffle through the paper in the mornings together without needing to fill the space with empty conversation. Because they are happy. Just happy. Together.”
― Melissa Ferguson, Meet Me in the Margins

“It’s the Cade way after all: to be the change we wish to see in the world. Great opportunities to help people seldom come, but small ones surround us every day. We rise by lifting others. All that.”
― Melissa Ferguson, Meet Me in the Margins

“His smile grows. ''After all, not everyone at Pennington shares the same appreciation of the more ... adventurous fiction as you and me.”
― Melissa Ferguson, Meet Me in the Margins

“What would somebody think of a person like me? Who, out there in the world, would think I was special enough to make the heroine in their story?”
― Melissa Ferguson, Meet Me in the Margins

“It’s New York. They breed pretty people there.”
― Melissa Ferguson, Meet Me in the Margins

“waistline or, most especially, counting steps. Life is about movement, and pause. Work, and rest. It’s about relationship.”
― Melissa Ferguson, Meet Me in the Margins

“That woman with the cane is getting hers and looks not a day younger than ninety. I mean”
― Melissa Ferguson, Famous for a Living: A Fish-Out-of-Water, Opposites-Attract Romantic Comedy

“The chandelier”
― Melissa Ferguson, Meet Me in the Margins

“Does lying impress you? Because I can lie. I can be the best pathological liar you've ever seen.'

Melissa Ferguson
The Dating Charade”
― Melissa Ferguson, The Dating Charade

“My former boyfriend was my first, and last, kiss, and to be completely honest here, I always thought doing laundry would be a better way to spend time.”
― Melissa Ferguson, Meet Me in the Margins

“Forget about the manuscript. Just the amount of time it takes to figure out how to make a website, get a website host, find and buy a domain name, create a newsletter mailing list, create a newsletter mailing-list template, and figure out how to “create a brand” when you don’t yet have anything to sell . . . It’s enough to make your brain explode. I’m halfway into the “Become an Influencer”
― Melissa Ferguson, Meet Me in the Margins

“It’s my unique challenge, keeping my books light as a feather while still conveying a meaningful message and not, now to quote Amelia, “all the super-boring stuff” that weighs people down. Rom-com, unlike my Water Under the Bridge, is unique in that sense. Laugh and fall in love and resolve some of your existential crisis while you go. Spend a few hours with your eyes skating over pages of happiness, all while the more serious bits of your life get to rest their legs. Take a break. Laugh your heart to healing, I like to say. Now there’s a tagline. Because laughter is a part of life too, isn’t it? Something not to be dismissed as it stands side by side with more serious matters of growth and grief.”
― Melissa Ferguson, The Perfect Rom-Com

“Laughter is life. To laugh is to live.”
― Melissa Ferguson, The Perfect Rom-Com

“There’s no way we can compete.” Her eyes were on the leads, now huddled together like they were District 1 in the Hunger Games.”
― Melissa Ferguson, The Cul-de-Sac War

“There is a real chance that the pitch regulations require that agents and editors allow the full fifteen minutes. Maybe he isn’t allowed to force me out. I’ve paid all this money. Maybe he has to let me give my full pitch. My insides are gnawing at me. It’s a painful, hopeful plan I’m drawing up. Putting my foot down isn’t my strong point. Being an inconvenience to someone, or even thinking about the possibility of being an inconvenience to someone, is right up there with dropping into a tank of jellyfish. Unacceptable. Standing here even considering being a five-minute inconvenience to Jack Sterling is enough to make me queasy.”
― Melissa Ferguson, The Perfect Rom-Com

“Because all of a sudden I am acutely aware that I’m standing on the precipice of knowing and not knowing. And really, the not-knowing land was not such an imposing land to live in after all, when you think of it. In not-knowing land there was still hope. There was still a chance that things would work out for me. In knowing land, though—if I step into the Land of the Know—I’m going to know without question. And if the answer isn’t what I want, I can’t strap hope back onto my back for safekeeping. No, hope is for those who stay in the Land of the Not Know.”
― Melissa Ferguson, Meet Me in the Margins

“All this time, I thought, I may just be able to do this! I may just have a writer’s soul after all! But what am I, really?”
― Melissa Ferguson, Meet Me in the Margins

“Spend a few hours with your eyes skating over pages of happiness, all while the more serious bits of your life get to rest their legs. Take a break. Laugh your heart to healing, I like to say. Now there’s a tagline. Because laughter is a part of life too, isn’t it? Something not to be dismissed as it stands side by side with more serious matters of growth and grief.”
― Melissa Ferguson, The Perfect Rom-Com

“And yet here I stand, in possession of “literature’s kudzu.”
― Melissa Ferguson, Meet Me in the Margins

“And the question running through my mind in all of this is, How on earth am I supposed to be able to manage a website, run a bimonthly newsletter, talk daily on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, and Twitter, and still have time to actually write books? What are these insane expectations?”
― Melissa Ferguson, Meet Me in the Margins

“Grief was a cruel jack-in-the-box. Sometimes it popped out at the least desirable moments:”
― Melissa Ferguson, The Cul-de-Sac War