Small Circles Quotes

“I never knew the difference between loving someone and being in love,” he began. “I don’t know why, because now it seems so obvious. I mean, it’s in the name: in love. When you love someone that just means you care; but when you’re in love, that means you’re a part of it.” He scanned the audience and landed on Paxton and Jade holding hands in the third row. “The feeling consumes you,” he continued. “And when you’re surrounded by that want and that need to make that other person happy, you can’t see anything else. You’re blind to all of the hate and the hurt that’s waiting on the outside. None of it matters, because in here – in love – nothing hurts.” Larson watched as a drop of his own tears fell onto the surface in front of him. “I don’t care if I’m blind for the rest of my life. I loved Owen. I’m in love with him. And even though he’s gone, I’ll never leave this place we made.”
― Megan Duke, Small Circles

“Just before folding up the piece of paper
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she’d used to write her message, she said, “Even when it feels like the world is ending around us, clocks still move, and hearts still beat. We run in circles – small repetitive circles that define our lives. Where mine ends, yours begins. And we will never separate, because we are one story.” She looked out into the crowd and met Larson’s eyes. “All four of us. Forever.”
― Megan Duke, Small Circles

“It's okay to be happy.”
― Megan Duke, Small Circles

“Why?" Owen whispered. "Because it might be true? I'm tired of pretending like my heart isn't bleeding inside my chest because I want to be with you so badly. I don't want to fight it anymore. I want to be happy.”
― Megan Duke, Small Circles

“I want to tell you that I love you,” he said. “But I’m afraid you won’t remember it tomorrow.”

“There’s no way I would forget that.”
― Megan Duke, Ninety Degrees: A Precursor to Small Circles

“But you’re so much stronger than he was. He wasn’t able to get up after being knocked down. You’re different. I’ve never even seen you fall.” - Jade, Small Circles”
― Megan Duke, Small Circles

“Paxton choked on the tears that were gushing uncontrollably down his face. “This feels... a lot like falling,” he let out through his gasps for air.
Jade pulled Paxton’s trembling frame against hers. His hoodie was warm from his body heat and it smelt like cigarette smoke and deodorant. “No,” she corrected him. “This is just... slipping gracefully.”
― Megan Duke, Small Circles

“Larson had been putting up a front like he wasn’t listening, but hearing that last statement from Owen made him speak up. “It’s not about that,” he asserted.
“It has to be,” Owen disagreed. “How else am I supposed to define myself?”
“Why do you have to have a definition? A label isn’t gonna make you feel any better about yourself or this situation. Stop trying to put yourself in one group or the other. It doesn’t matter.”
“It matters to me!” Owen challenged. “My whole world has been flipped upside down thanks to you! Am I just supposed to sit back and accept that?”
Larson was beginning to boil over with repugnance. “Yes! Because that’s what happens!” He was trying as hard a he could not to scream. “Things change and sometimes there’s nothing we can do about it. Life sucks. Deal with it! That’s what I’m doing. I’m not doing it in the best way, but I’m doing it. I’m dealing with that fact that you left me.”
― Megan Duke, Small Circles

“We're just lines and angles.”
― Megan Duke, Ninety Degrees: A Precursor to Small Circles

“I made a birdhouse,” he said confidently. “And I painted it to look like Hogwarts.”
― Megan Duke, Ninety Degrees: A Precursor to Small Circles

“If there were two things Silas McFuller knew about the world, it was that life is not always fair, but everything happens for a reason.”
― Megan Duke, Ninety Degrees: A Precursor to Small Circles

“If there was a temperature at which drama boiled, they were all sitting in hot water.”
― Megan Duke, Ninety Degrees: A Precursor to Small Circles

“Thanks for our moment.”
― Megan Duke, Ninety Degrees: A Precursor to Small Circles

“If you wanted candles and romantic music, then you wouldn’t have chosen me.”
“Maybe I didn’t choose,” she dared. “Maybe it just happened.”
― Megan Duke, Ninety Degrees: A Precursor to Small Circles

“You make me feel like I'm drowning.”
― Megan Duke, Ninety Degrees: A Precursor to Small Circles