If I'd known it was going to be the last time he'd ever hold me, I'd have paid better attention.
Megan HartIf you're lucky, the friends you make when you're sixteen stay with you for the rest of your life. If you're smart, you know when it's time to let them go.
Megan HartI didnโt fall in love with James. Falling sounds like an accident. Falling hurts. Iโd fallen in love with Michael, fallen hard like slipping off a cliff and hitting the rocks below. Falling in love was something Iโd vowed never to do again. I chose to love James.
Megan HartI could say his body was perfect and every part of it beautiful, because it was. Not because he had no flaws, but because I wanted him so desperately I couldnโt see any.
Megan HartWhat are you, Elle? Are you a ghost? Are you an angel or a demon? Because you canโt be real.
Megan HartWe labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him.
Megan HartFoolish. Stupid. I knew it. I knew my reaction was unreasonable, bu the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal said that, and I've always found it to be true.
Megan HartI've been hit on plenty of times, mostly by men with little finesse who thought what was between their legs made up for what they lacked between their ears.
Megan HartA good sister is one who won't be embarrassed when you burst into tears in public. A better one will hand you tissues until you stop. The best is the one who will go get you another latte to go with the ginormous chocolate orgy she's already laid in front of you.
Megan HartI had no words to give him. No explanation. I didnโt understand it, myself. It scared me, but then so do roller coasters, and I ride them anyway, too.
Megan HartSometimes,โ he said after a second that lasted a million years, โthings get broken. And they canโt be fixed.
Megan HartKnowing what you need doesn't always mean you know how to get it, though. I'd spent a long time hiding in my cave. No matter how much I might want to come out into the light, I knew it would hurt my eyes. I was a fool. A fool, but nevertheless too smart not to know I was the architect of my own demise, that it was time to put my past behind me. It was time to stop allowing the white elephants to stand unspoken of in my living room.
Megan HartIt is such a secret place, the land of tears. That is what the narrator ofThe Little Prince says after the little prince argues with him the first time about matters of consequence. And he was right. My land of tears had been a secret for a very long time.
Megan HartSometimes, you turn back. Sometimes, you walk away. And sometimes, you find the place you're meant to be, and you stay there. You find a way to make it work. Whatever it takes.
Megan HartYou know what the best part of the stars is?" "What's that?" "They're the same no matter what sky you're standing under. I mean...yeah, they might move or look like they're in a different place, but they're the same stars." "Yeah? So?" "So even if you're apart from someone you want to be with, you can look up at the stars and know they're looking at the same ones.
Megan HartThere are few times when we know with absolute certainty we are going to do something for the last time. Life has a way of moving in circles, bringing us back to places we didnโt expect and taking us away from those we do. There are too many times we donโt pay close enough attention, and moments are lost in our assumption weโll have another chance.
Megan Hart