Megan > Megan's Quotes

“We all know how loving ends. But I want to fall in love with the world anyway, to let it crack me open. I want to feel what there is to feel while I am here.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“What is to give light must endure burning.”
― Victor Frankl

“I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships, so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking from the outside.”
― Wm. Paul Young, The Shack

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I've danced way too long on the tilted ground. I don't know what to do with myself when I'm on something steady.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“Loving requires so much courage and so little expectation.”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“Okay,” she says, nodding. Then she gulps. God, this is not fair. I see myself in her. I see the steel wrapped in fear that all little girls find on the spike-strewn road to womanhood. I hate that this is where she finds it.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“Everything worthwhile is dangerous.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Book of Magic

“Life’s short enough without us talking ourselves out of hope and trying to dodge every bad feeling. Sometimes you have to push through the discomfort, instead of running.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“Do we only decide in retrospect that we've been happy? Don't we notice when we're happy, or do we realize only much later that we were?”
― Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop

“Fourth time's the charm," she says to people who ask her what the secret of a happy marriage is, but that's not the way she feels about it. She knows now that when you don't lose yourself in the bargain, you find you have double the love you started with, and that's one recipe that can't be tampered with.”
― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic

“When it comes to wanting to make a difference in the world, I find that it can also be useful to break down those gigantic, all-or-nothing goals into their component parts. This way, you are less likely to get overwhelmed or exhausted, or crash into feelings of futility.
None of this is defeat. What becomes defeating is when great becomes the enemy of good—when we get so caught up in the hugeness of everything that we stall out before we’ve even started, when the problems appear so big that we give up on taking the smaller steps, managing what is actually in our control.”
― Michelle Obama, The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

“But that was the point, and the comfort of it, too. No matter the weight of your pain or loss, the world only ever knew how to move on. And so did you.”
― Lana Harper, Back in a Spell

“You can't know this yet. In fact, we rarely know it until it's too late to need to know it, but you are going to be just fine.”
― Roan Parrish, The Holiday Trap

“The first time you share tea, you are a stranger. The second time you share tea, you are an honored guest. The third time you share tea, you become family.”
― T.J. Klune, Under the Whispering Door

“Nothing must happen to you
No, what am I saying
Everything must happen to you
And it must be wonderful”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“I want to know myself, to test my edges and see where I stop and the rest of the world begins.”
― Emily Henry, Funny Story

“I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Get a window seat, honey, ’cause there’s so much to see. —LORELAI GILMORE”
― Rebecca Serle, One Italian Summer

“You make me feel invincible,” you whispered. Love does that. It makes you feel infinite and invincible, like the whole world is open to you, anything is achievable, and each day will be filled with wonder. Maybe it’s the act of opening yourself up, letting someone else in—or maybe it’s the act of caring so deeply about another person that it expands your heart.”
― Jill Santopolo, The Light We Lost

“God doesn't protect people from knives, sweetheart. That's why God gave us other people, so we can protect each other.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“One day you’ll realize family isn’t about whose blood runs in your veins, it’s who you’d spill it for.”
― Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone

“She realized that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality. As Thoreau wrote, ‘It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“As far as I can see, this is a problem with living in the twenty-first century. Many of us have every material thing we need, so the job of marketing is now to tie the economy to our emotions, to make us feel like we need more by making us want things we never needed before. We are made to feel poor on thirty thousand pounds a year. To feel poorly travelled if we have been to only ten other countries. To feel too old if we have a wrinkle. To feel ugly if we aren’t photoshopped and filtered. No one I knew in the 1600s wanted to find their inner billionaire. They just wanted to live to see adolescence and avoid body lice.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“It’s fascinating. How so much of love is about who you are with someone.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“When you fall in love like that, time doesn’t matter. This was the secret he told Maria, the last words he ever said. What belonged to you once, will always belong to you. Be grateful if you have walked through the world with another’s heart in your hand.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons

“I don’t want to have to be the one who mourns everything when everyone else has clearly forgotten. It’s mortifying. It’s mortifying to be the one who remembers.”
― Ryan O'Connell

“Every time you leave someone’s life you risk being the worst thing that’s ever happened to them, or the last thing to ever happen to them, don’t you?”
― Sarah Maria Griffin, Eat the Ones You Love

“Life hurts. Love hurts. Maybe hurting is how you know it's working--like every healer's cure I've ever taken, the ache is how you heal. The pain is the whole point. This is how a person is alive, not numbed into nothingness. Not hiding and ignoring and twisting all that hurt into anger. Anger is heavy; sometimes, it doesn't serve.”
― Hazel Beck, Truly Madly Magically