Megan Squires > Quotes

“I want to live for today, hope for tomorrow, and try to look for the good in everything in between.”
― Megan Squires, The Rules of Regret

“Not all breaks are clean. Sometimes we crumble, sometimes we erode. And those erosions, Eppie-the ones that chip away at our hopes and dreams and out plans for the futures-those are often a lifetime in the making. It's those we must watch out for, my dear.”
― Megan Squires, Love Like Crazy

“When life takes something that is yours, you have every right to demand it back!”
― Megan Squires

“We're the summation of our histories, so if this guy is truly falling in love with you, he's falling for your past as much as he's falling for your present.”
― Megan Squires, Love Like Crazy

“We don’t wear life’s tragedies for everyone to see, now do we? Suppose it would make life a little easier on us all if we did, though. It would sure give us a lot more grace with one another if we could get just a small glimpse of what others have gone through.”
― Megan Squires, A Lake House Holiday

“But life- I'd come to find out- was pretty damn large. It coiled and wove and spun its own story, threading together tales to create an intricate, confusing saga. We didn't get our own book. We were all part of the same infinite one..... We weren't chapters. We weren't even sentences. My part in it was as insignificant as a letter on a page.”
― Megan Squires, The Rules of Regret

“Learning about one's self is a linear, forward moving thing”
― Megan Squires, Love Like Crazy

“Hundreds of stars hung above us, brilliant white pinpricks in the black paper sky. They glittered and literally twinkled like diamonds, just like the nursery rhyme said they would.”
― Megan Squires, Love Like Crazy

“Life is not meant to be a peaceful experience, I don’t think. Don’t know how we can be so arrogant as to believe that’s something we could ever even achieve. When we’re not warring with one another, we’re warring within ourselves. When we no longer have enemies, we become our own.”
― Megan Squires, Love Like Crazy

“You don’t ever fall in love with the current version of someone, because I hate to burst your pretty little bubble, but that doesn’t exist. We’re the summation of our histories, so if this guy is truly falling in love with you, he’s falling for your past as much as he’s falling for your present.”
― Megan Squires, Love Like Crazy

“I'm trying to decide if I should be worried by the fact that your actions are slightly stalkerish, sitting on my roof in the dead of the night and all."
"I think what you should be more concerned with is the fact that I've waved to, smiled at, and exchanged pleasantries with at least three of your neighbors while up here, and not a single one of them had altered the authorities.”
― Megan Squires, Love Like Crazy

“Learning meant growing, and growing meant you were moving forward in life”
― Megan Squires, Love Like Crazy

“You don't ever fall in love with the current version of someone, because i hate to burst your pretty little bubble, but that doesn't exist. We're the summation of our histories, so if this guy is truly falling in love with you , he's falling for your past as much as he's falling for your present”
― Megan Squires, Love Like Crazy

“Honestly, Eppie, no one had ever cared this much about being close to me. I sorta don't know what to do with it," he admitted. "And though I'm completely flattered that you are envious of the physical closeness these roommates and bugs share with me, you've forgotten one thing."
"What's that?"
His words were doors, each one of them opening up another part of him, inviting me in.
"That your heart already lives here." He picked up my hand and pressed my palm flatly against his chest, directly over his heart. "And you can't get any closer than that.”
― Megan Squires, Love Like Crazy

“Adults often forgot what it was like to grow through childhood and into adulthood. They forgot that adolescence was a process of circumstances and emotions, chained together over time, the linking of epiphanies whose only requirement was to be experienced firsthand. Life was a firsthand sort of thing.”
― Megan Squires, Love Like Crazy

“You like these? They don't make my butt look big?"
Well, of course by saying that, he'd pretty much just glued my eyes to his backside, not that they weren't there already.
"No, it's perfect."
"You think my ass is perfect?"
"Is there any answer I can say now that won't make me sound like a complete creep? 'Cause I'm feeling a little backed into a corner here.”
― Megan Squires, Draw Me In

“Oh, Phil," I teased. "You know what happens when you assume."
"Yes. Someone makes an overdone, tripe joke about the spelling of a commonly used verb.”
― Megan Squires, Love Like Crazy

“The relationships you form in the trenches, though? The people who intersect your life during your moments of brokenness and stay around to fight with you and for you, I think those are the sticking types of relationships.”
― Megan Squires, Love Like Crazy

“Hey." The sound came out of him an octave deeper than all the others. "Can I ask your opinion on something else?"
"Yeah. Sure."
"What's your opinion on kissing me?"
I stopped breathing, aware that if I kept doing it, it would be all shaky and quivering. Utterly humiliating.
"I mean, not right now." I was so grateful Lincoln continued talking so his words could mask the nervous vibration in my exhale. I desperately needed another breath. Things were getting that fuzzy rimmed blackness that precluded passing out. "But, like, someday. Like, can I someday kiss you? Even if someday is really far off. Would that be okay?"
"I think that might be okay. Someday.”
― Megan Squires, Love Like Crazy

“You like these? They don't make my butt look big?"
Well, of course by saying that, he'd pretty much just glued my eyes to his backside, not that they weren't there already.
"No, it's perfect."
"You think my ass is perfect?"
"Is there any answer I can say now that won't make me sound like a complete creep? 'Cause I'm feeling a little backed into a corner here."
"You want me to back you into a corner? I think it's a little soon for that, don't you?”
― Megan Squires, Draw Me In

“The fact that he even wanted to continue being in presence after this third and most embarrassing encounter yet said something about him. He was an idiot.”
― Megan Squires, Draw Me In

“Maybe it wasn’t the sharing of blood that made you family, but the willingness to shed it for one another.”
― Megan Squires, Love Like Crazy

“Everthing-absolutely everything-will be my I love you, Eppie.”
― Megan Squires, Love Like Crazy

“Sometimes the one who have the right to you aren't necessarily the ones who KNOW what's right for you”
― Megan Squires, Love Like Crazy

“Thank you for this life and this love, the likes of which I never knew possible. You took a leap with me, and I’ll forever be grateful that you trusted me to fall with you.”
― Megan Squires, Love Like Crazy

“You need to be enough all on your own”
― Megan Squires, Love Like Crazy

“Quit making out in my kitchen," Dan asserted as he loudly entered the room, his voice reaching us first. "You're going to contaminate the food. Totally unsanitary.”
― Megan Squires, Love Like Crazy

“I’ll take you back to your place. I just want to stop by the duplex and grab one thing first.” “What’s that?” “My guitar,” he said as we trampled through the tall grasses. “I think this time we’re going to need more than just your voice to drown out this latest dose of pain.”
― Megan Squires, Love Like Crazy

“I’ve tried desperately hard to remain a gentleman with you, saying things like that is pure kryptonite to my chivalryness.”
― Megan Squires, Love Like Crazy

“If you hung out with these so-called 'normal'people you speak of, Eppie, you'd realized that it's much more welcoming in the self-proclaimed 'freak' crowd”
― Megan Squires, Love Like Crazy