Quote

It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had.

Megan Hart

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Megan Hart
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 27
Author
Novelist
Happy
Ending
Fairy
Tales
Sort

More quotes by Megan Hart

Image
I do not like that I allowed my past to close me off. I do not like that I let circumstances rob me of the ability to have a normal relationship with a man, to have friends, to be happy. I do not like it, but I had felt myself powerless against it.
Megan Hart
Image
Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.
Megan Hart
Image
I had no words to give him. No explanation. I didn’t understand it, myself. It scared me, but then so do roller coasters, and I ride them anyway, too.
Megan Hart
Image
I was trying to replace something I'd come to care about very much with something pretending to be as important.
Megan Hart
Image
If I'd known it was going to be the last time he'd ever hold me, I'd have paid better attention.
Megan Hart
Image
But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.
Megan Hart
Image
When you find someone who makes you smile and laugh, when you find someone who makes you feel safe…you shouldn’t let that person go just because you’re afraid.
Megan Hart
Image
He hadn’t been her first lover or the first boy to give her an orgasm. He hadn’t even been the first she’d loved. He’d been the first to turn her inside out with something as simple as a smile. The first to make her doubt herself. He’d taken her deeper than anyone ever had, and yet she hadn’t drowned.
Megan Hart
Image
He was quiet. I said nothing, hoping that maybe, for once, he'd stop pretenting he was okay. Then I could, too. That we could both forget the roles that had so long bound us.
Megan Hart
Image
But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.
Megan Hart
Image
A 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 Hart
Image
Sometimes,” Joe said after a bit, “it’s just easier to keep being what everyone expects you to be. Even if that’s what you’re not, anymore.
Megan Hart
Image
Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up.
Megan Hart
Image
Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy.
Megan Hart
Image
They were all you, to me. All of them were you.
Megan Hart
Image
You don’t have to be sad to miss someone and wish they were still in your life.
Megan Hart
Image
The hardest lies to detect are the ones surrounded by truth.
Megan Hart
Image
I looked at the cards in my hand, the queen of hearts nestled between the king of clubs and the king of spades. No wonder she was smiling.
Megan Hart
Image
Love is always real, even when it doesn’t last.
Megan Hart
Image
All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.
Megan Hart