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Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy.
Megan Hart
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Megan Hart
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 27
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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.
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I know everything and nothing about him all at the same time.
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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.
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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.
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I didn’t fall in love with James. Falling sounds like an accident. Falling hurts. I’d fallen in love with Michael, fallen hard like slipping off a cliff and hitting the rocks below. Falling in love was something I’d vowed never to do again. I chose to love James.
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Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.
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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.
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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.
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But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.
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You don’t have to be sad to miss someone and wish they were still in your life.
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Love is always real, even when it doesn’t last.
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All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.
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From the first time you laughed with me, all those months, and all those stories,” Joe said quietly. “They were all you, to me. All of them were you.
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Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It’s those that bring us grief that linger.
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It’s okay to struggle to find our place in this world and the person who will take us for who and what we are. Sometimes we dress ourselves in layers that only get peeled away in the end, to leave us as we should be.
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Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up.
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I've done my best to drive you away, Sadie, he said suddenly. But you've never left me.
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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.
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