Meg Leder > Quotes

“Just because someone isn't at their best doesn't mean you write them off forever" -Pen”
― Meg Leder, The Museum of Heartbreak

“I stared at Eph, envying the fact that he already had a costume, though whether it was actually qualified as a costume was debatable. He was dressed in all black- black jeans, black knit hat, black boots, long-sleeved, black T-shirt, black thermal on top of it.
"I'm the dark night of the soul. Or a black hole. Or something like that," He'd said when I'd asked him earlier.
"You're copping out," I said.
"How is being in more than one costume copping out? I'm actually so investing in this, I am in an infinite number of costumes. It's meta and crap.”
― Meg Leder, The Museum of Heartbreak

“I will remember the feel of his hand around mine for the rest of my life.”
― Meg Leder, The Museum of Heartbreak

“Little parts of my heart break off then, for Finn, for Ruby, for Charlie, for me, for all the ways we've let ourselves become who people think we should be instead of who we really are.”
― Meg Leder, Letting Go of Gravity

“Why would I hate you?"
"Because I was being, as Oscar made a point of telling me later, the most unlikable version of myself”
― Meg Leder, The Museum of Heartbreak

“As I glanced around my room, sliding my dinosaur back and forth on its chain, I though that maybe that was the point--that instead of happy endings, you get beginnings. Hundreds of little beginnings happening every moment, each of them layering into histories deep and tangled and new, histories you count on to remain, no matter what changes the world throws at you.”
― Meg Leder, The Museum of Heartbreak

“That's what friends do–they remind you of who you are underneath all the stuff people believe about you, all the stuff you believe about yourself.”
― Meg Leder, Letting Go of Gravity

“It was lonely being mad at people.”
― Meg Leder, The Museum of Heartbreak

“I want to tell him that everything is a mess, that I hate the in-between space, that my feet ache for the ground, that a very small, very scared part of me wants to touch the sky, and that that is maybe the worst thing of all.”
― Meg Leder, Letting Go of Gravity

“His smile was deep and dark, like a thousand books begging to be read, like the doorway to Narnia.”
― Meg Leder, The Museum of Heartbreak

“You did the right thing. I don't like it, but I love you for it. Thank you.”
― Meg Leder, Letting Go of Gravity

“Back then I didn't know what he did exactly, but I knew that's what I wanted--to come home and be as happy as he was”
― Meg Leder, Letting Go of Gravity

“All that heartbreak? It got us here.”
― Meg Leder, The Museum of Heartbreak

“There was no irritation there, no hidden agenda. Just my brother smiling at me without thinking twice, It's such a small thing, but it's also as big as the universe.”
― Meg Leder, Letting Go of Gravity

“Everything around me smelled musty, like when you open an old book and it smells like words.”
― Meg Leder, The Museum of Heartbreak

“Sometimes the biggest heartbreak of all is letting go of the time before you knew things could ever be broken.”
― Meg Leder, The Museum of Heartbreak