Meg > Meg's Quotes

“He soothed the places I hadn't known needed soothing, seemed perfectly willing to embrace the parts of me that were wanton, unsettled, unfinished, and contradictory. Together we had engaged life as two forks eating off one plate. Ready to listen, to love, to look into the darkness and see a thin filament of the moon.”
― Tembi Locke, From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

“I'm afraid I don't have magic."
"You do, Mr. Baker. Arthur told me that there can be magic in the ordinary.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“I will die drowning; it has always been know. This was my first vision, long before I knew it for what it was, and I've had it so many times now that I know each instant by heart. Where most visions are ephemeral things, shifting and changing in different lights and at different angles, this one is always so solid that it leaves its bruises on my mind and soul long after it ends.

The water will be cold against my skin. It will rush around me like a storm, teasing my hair in different directions until it clouds my vision. I won't be able to see a thing. I will want to kick up to the surface, to breathe the air I know is only a few meters away, but I will stay frozen and sink lower and lower in my whirlpool until my feet finally touch soft sand. My eyes will be closed, and everything around me will be darkness.

My lungs will burn, burn, burn until I fear they are going to burst. The surface will be so close, I could reach it if I just kick up...but I won't. I won't want to.

In a week or a year or a decade, I will die drowning. When I do, it will be a choice.”
― Laura Sebastian

“I am but paper. Brittle and thin. I am held up to the sun, and it shines right through me. I get written on, and I can never be used again. These scratches are a history. They’re a story. They tell things for others to read, but they only see the words, and not what the words are written upon. I am but paper, and though there are many like me, none are exactly the same. I am parched parchment. I have lines. I have holes. Get me wet, and I melt. Light me on fire, and I burn. Take me in hardened hands, and I crumple. I tear. I am but paper. Brittle and thin.”
― T.J. Klune, The House in the Cerulean Sea

“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“By staying married, we give something to ourselves and to others: hope. Hope that in steadfastly loving someone, we ourselves, for all our faults, will be loved; that the broken world will be made whole. To hitch your rickety wagon to the flickering star of another fallible human being -- what an insane thing to do. What a burden, and what a gift.”
― Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

“I thought once that gods are the opposite of death, but I see now they are more dead than anything, for they are unchanging, and can hold nothing in their hands.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Maybe Eve was never meant to be our warning. Maybe she was meant to be our model. Own your wanting. Eat the apple. Let it burn.”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“That’s why fiction resonates with people. It speaks to universal truths.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“That is one thing gods and mortals share. When we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Men are idiots. We complain that women are so mysterious and shit, and we never know what they want. We fuck up our relationships because we convince ourselves that it’s too hard to figure them out. But the real problem is with us. We think we’re not supposed to feel things and cry and express ourselves. We expect women to do all the emotional labor in a relationship and then act confused when they give up on us.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“Romance novels are primarily written by women for women, and they’re entirely about how they want to be treated and what they want out of life and in a relationship. We read them to be more comfortable expressing ourselves and to look at things from their perspective.”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“All spouses become strangers to each other at some point in a marriage,” Del said. “All human beings are a work in progress, and we don’t all change at the same pace. Who knows how many people have gotten divorced simply because they failed to recognize that what they thought were insurmountable problems were actually just temporary phases?”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“She's the siren and the selkie. The virgin and the Valkyrie. Artemis and Athena.”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches

“Storms are less fickle than they are, the seas less capricious”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Because he knew her well enough to realize she'd rather be holed up in here like Gollum, stroking books and murmuring, "My precious.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“Putting golden frames around my scars, that's who I am.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“Now piss off.” With a few glares and muttered comments, off he pissed.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“Try to look more like yourself and less like seven guilty toddlers standing on each other’s shoulders in a security uniform.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“Of course, she couldn’t let him know she was melting, since he was a handsome man, and handsome men must never be allowed to know the full extent of their sexual appeal. They couldn’t be trusted with the knowledge.”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“a mix of razor-sharp insight and meme regurgitation”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“There's nothing immoral about the way I want you...”
― Talia Hibbert, Take a Hint, Dani Brown

“There is no such thing as freedom on earth," he said. "Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“The greatest happiness [...] is to sneeze when you want to.”
― L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle

“(Personally, I have avoided many fights by going to bed angry and waking up to realize that I'd just been tired.)”
― Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

“To love somebody is not just a strong feeling -- it is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise," writes psychologist Erich Fromm. "If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forever. A feeling comes and it may go. How can I judge that it will stay forever, when my act does not involve judgment and decision?”
― Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

“...that's part of what marriage means: sometimes hating this other person but staying together because you promised you would.”
― Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

“The boring parts don't last forever. In retrospect, they aren't even boring.”
― Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give

“The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the opening scene -- are not useful for grown-ups.”
― Ada Calhoun, Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give