Meg Tompkins

“Because there would be lonely days. And bad days. And days when I wondered what the hell I had just agreed to be part of. Because that was all part of the adventure too.”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

“I don’t regret it. It was an adventure. You must learn in life to take things more lightly, my dear. The world is always changing. Learn how to allow for it. Someone makes a promise, and then they break it.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“But sometimes, the curveballs end up smacking us in the chest and close to the heart, leaving bruises that never seem to heal.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Two By Two

“All of it just confirmed his belief that his real life, the life he should be living, had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians