Megan Collins > Quotes

“I believed that you could love someone so much, and still, you could hurt them. I believed that a heart could pound with pain and love at exactly the same time.”
― Megan Collins

“Here is a girl who loved my brother—even with his anger, his tornadic moods—and I wish I knew what drew him toward her all those nights, what the two of them laughed about, if Ruby ever saw him cry.”
― Megan Collins, The Family Plot

“But what I didn’t understand, never paused for a moment to consider, is that cocoons are inherently temporary, too tight a space in which to grow.”
― Megan Collins, The Family Plot

“It’s poetic, really. Dad hunted so many deer in his lifetime, and in the end, he died on top of one. Seems almost… intentional, doesn’t it? Like his heart knew what he’d been up to and murdered him for it.”
― Megan Collins, The Family Plot

“To be honest,” he continues, “I resented him for most of my life. I hated that he paid such little attention to me so he could basically stalk you all instead.”
― Megan Collins, The Family Plot

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

“Why would he protect him like that? Why would he work so hard to save birds with broken wings, but wouldn’t even try to save the island’s women?”
― Megan Collins, The Family Plot

“I’m annoyed by his tone—smug, self-satisfied. I can picture him writing in his notepad, hand hurrying across the page to describe my silence.”
― Megan Collins, The Family Plot

“When we learned Andy was murdered,” she continues, “I knew, without a doubt, that I was to blame. I’d made the wrong choice, been the wrong kind of mother.” Her voice narrows to a whisper. “It was karma, Andy’s death. I lied about my parents being murdered, and then my child was murdered in return.”
― Megan Collins, The Family Plot

“I bet they killed him themselves. Some Satanic ritual.”
― Megan Collins, The Family Plot

“I know who you are,” Lyle says, eyes like arrows aimed at my face. “And I know what I said. Your brother Andy got what he deserved.”
― Megan Collins, The Family Plot

“doubt it. Chief Kraft was like everyone else: suspicious of us, monitoring us, believing himself entitled to his intrusions.”
― Megan Collins, The Family Plot

“I don’t want anyone to think, she said firmly whenever we tried, that because they created something that killed so many people, it was karma that they were killed by that thing in return.”
― Megan Collins, The Family Plot

“They’ll take you away and throw you in jail.’ Because he planned it that way. He made me his partner in crime.”
― Megan Collins, The Family Plot

“Which left just me, alone in my anguish for years after that, lighting the candles with Mom and Dad, saying the Honoring prayer that I’ve since learned they created themselves.”
― Megan Collins, The Family Plot