Megan Montgomery > Quotes

“DC Comics doesn’t have the moral ambiguity Marvel does. That’s what makes it interesting.” “You sound like a sixth grader.”
― Megan Montgomery, The Remains of Christmas

“He was a bone geek, a death worker. His hair was already down. He rolled. There’d always been a disconnect with my dating life, and it was one hundred percent because of me.”
― Megan Montgomery, The Remains of Christmas

“My old mentor used to say: if you can work with the dead; you should. You owe it to the world, because there aren’t many who are built like us. With stomachs strong as steel and nerves smooth as glass.”
― Megan Montgomery

“I only told you to let you know how life can go on, even when nice things don’t work out. Success can continue. Hope can continue. Love, especially, can continue. You’ve had a few setbacks. Feel them. Grovel in them. And then go on. That’s all we can do.”
― Megan Montgomery, Well... That Was Awkward

“That’s not ‘Jingle Bells.’ I know that one. ‘Jingle Bells’ is Oh, what fun. You’re playing Shit, my life is over.”
― Megan Montgomery, The Remains of Christmas

“Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner. Please don’t move me to Florida.”
― Megan Montgomery, The Bones of Love

“I’ve never cried in your arms, but I don’t have to to know you’d hold me until my tears dried on your shirt. We haven’t seen each other through loss or hard times, but I know I’ll always hold space for you. I don’t know your greatest shame—besides me—or your greatest fears. I don’t know if you believe in a higher power, or how you vote, or what made you go into odontology, how many kids you want, or where you even buy eight-hundred-dollar pants, but I know you’re the one.”
― Megan Montgomery, The Remains of Christmas

“You should have bought the Subaru. It fits an entire skeleton in its cargo, and you can hose off the mats afterward.”
― Megan Montgomery, The Bones of Love

“The air bit into my skin where it was unprotected: my face, my hands, my neck. Daphne still had the scarf I’d looped around her neck this morning and the gloves I’d later lent her. I didn’t have the heart to ask for them back. I didn’t want them back. My lizard brain wanted her to keep them, let them comfort and warm her body, so she’d think of me every time she wore them.”
― Megan Montgomery, The Remains of Christmas

“If men would just state their intentions, it would be so much easier. They disguise and play games and “see where things lead.” Fuck that.”
― Megan Montgomery, Morgue to Love

“What if I could keep him? Would it feel like October every day?”
― Megan Montgomery, Morgue to Love

“But I can’t say that yet. Because all that is crazy. It’s insane to ask someone you just met yesterday to move in with you tomorrow. And neither of us are insane. So, in the meantime, you’ll just... be my girlfriend?” I smiled. “Until it’s not insane to be my wife.”
― Megan Montgomery, The Remains of Christmas

“Rich white men have ways of making problems disappear.”
― Megan Montgomery, The Remains of Christmas

“I looked like trouble, but I was traditional. I’d been blue collar, but I liked bougie. I liked security, warmth, and home. My goals involved one day having a closet full of black sheath dresses and season tickets to the symphony.”
― Megan Montgomery, The Remains of Christmas

“We grieved when we lost someone or something and until then, we loved the shit out of them.”
― Megan Montgomery, Morgue to Love