Megan Chance > Quotes

“You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.”
― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist

“Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.”
― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist

“Imagine you come upon a house painted brown. What color would you say the house was?"
"Why brown, of course."
"But what if I came upon it from the other side, and found it to be white?"
"That would be absurd. Who would paint a house two colors?"
He ignored my question. "You say it's brown, and I say it's white. Who's right?"
"We're both right."
"Non," he said. "We're both wrong. The house isn't brown or white. It's both. You and I only see one side. But that doesn't mean the other side doesn't exist. To not see the whole is to not see the truth.”
― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist

“All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting.”
― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist

“The answers are what they are. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they aren't true.”
― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist

“The material world is simply an expression of the mind; that's what so many fail to see. We're so dependent on what is before us that we discount our intuition. Yet if one dismisses instinct, how can one understand or believe in a world that exists beyond one's sight?”
― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist

“Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?”
― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist

“People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.”
― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist

“Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.”
― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist

“Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as we see them.”
― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist

“In the end, there's only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don't lie.”
― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist

“Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.”
― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist

“The Bible was written by man to serve his own ends. Like society. Like the church. We use such things to control one another, but what right do we have to do so?”
― Megan Chance

“Glitterdust across a broad expanse of blue. Before me, the water unfurled like dark swaths of shadowed silk, colors muted, reflections cast by the lamps hanging from the prows of the gondolas rippling, and my heart swelled at the beauty and the romance of it.”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“Yes, she was his angel. But can’t you guess, my love? She was his demon too.”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe.”
― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist

“One day you’ll want for nothing. You don’t belong here. You are meant for something finer than this.”
― Megan Chance, A Splendid Ruin

“My ever-present loneliness only grew worse. How could I complain? I’d come from nothing. I was the luckiest girl in the world. I had a family now. How ungrateful I was, to want anything more.”
― Megan Chance, A Splendid Ruin

“The echo of my thought startled me. The weight of the future it contained frightened me more than anything else”
― Megan Chance, A Splendid Ruin

“I looked again at the library, my vision made real, beautiful yes, but a terrible betrayal. I would never be able to come here again, I knew. Goldie and my uncle had been cruel and avaricious, but their greed was not so personal as Ellis’s. Not so intimate. And yet, I knew also, in a way I had not known before, that its very intimacy made me stronger. I would not forgive him this,”
― Megan Chance, A Splendid Ruin

“The earth had set me free. The city was at my feet. I forgot where I was and that I had not touched a pencil in months.”
― Megan Chance, A Splendid Ruin

“There are many opportunities in a life. It’s not a failing to take whatever comes one’s way. In fact, I rather think it a strength.”
― Megan Chance, A Splendid Ruin

“Is it optimism or madness that keeps one forging ahead despite failure after failure?”
― Megan Chance, Inamorata

“The earth giveth, and the earth taketh away.”
― Megan Chance, A Splendid Ruin

“I’ve invented it, because there is no other word that celebrates the genius that is me.”
― Megan Chance, A Splendid Ruin

“All facade, all vacant, enjoyment without sustenance, celebration without boundaries or purpose.”
― Megan Chance, A Splendid Ruin

“we despise most those who know us at our worst. It’s true. It’s so true.”
― Megan Chance, A Splendid Ruin

“Now here was beautiful, vibrant Goldie, saying that we would be the best of friends, and I was foolish enough to think it was what I wanted above all else.”
― Megan Chance, A Splendid Ruin

“It seems all spirits need theatrics, eh? Even Christ himself requires incense and holy water. We're a skeptical people. We need convincing.”
― Megan Chance, The Spiritualist

“People see what they want to see. They’re busy trying to figure out who Bandersnitch is, but what they don’t expect is someone who looks like me, so no one sees me, even when I’m right in front of them. I’m hiding in plain sight. I stay in the background mostly. It’s a damnable thing, but it works. You were surprised at who I was, remember. I wasn’t as you imagined me.”
― Megan Chance, A Splendid Ruin