Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Humans find meaningfulness where none exists because we want to create a sense of order in this chaotic universe. It's called apophenia. (And it's also the reason people believe in God.)
Megan McCafferty
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Megan McCafferty
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: January 1
Author
Novelist
Megan Fitzmorris McCafferty
Sense
Order
Meaningfulness
Also
Chaotic
Reason
Exists
Find
None
Humans
Create
Believe
Called
People
Universe
More quotes by Megan McCafferty
It kind of makes me wish that the worst thing that will ever happen to me would just hurry up and happen already. That way I could live the rest of my life in bliss, if only because I know how much worse things could be.
Megan McCafferty
Love may have the longest arms, but it can still fall short of an embrace.
Megan McCafferty
Hornergy' is Zen's term for the indomitable athletic edge powered by sexual restraint. The basketball, baseball and football teams haven't had a winning season in years. The table-tennis team, however, is undefeated.
Megan McCafferty
I hate the very human inclination towards insensitivity
Megan McCafferty
You don't have to agree with me, but I think the heart of who we are stays pretty much the same, Hope said, What changes is how those core traits manifest themselves over time.
Megan McCafferty
When you say too much about anything important, it always ends up sounding more trivial than it is. Words trash it.
Megan McCafferty
Gone for a while Hoping, always, to return If you will let me
Megan McCafferty
That's what all love comes down to, doesn't it? We help others only as much as they let us.
Megan McCafferty
I almost can’t believe I’m going to make myself vulnerable to him again. But what is love but the most extreme and exquisite form of risk perception? I know that relationships don’t last. And yet, with him, the risk of not being with him is much worse than any other hurt I can imagine.
Megan McCafferty
My thoughts create my world -Marcus Flutie
Megan McCafferty
You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad mood at all it's just your sucky personality.
Megan McCafferty
I know. It's shocking to think that the government would try to stick its nose in our ladyparts.
Megan McCafferty
I just don't see the point in beating myself up. I think it's more productive to concentrate on being a better person right now than punishing myself for who I was in the past.
Megan McCafferty
I can let my true self shine in front of God.
Megan McCafferty
But why would it matter? We aren't ... or...uh...weren't ... Which is it, Jess? Aren't or weren't? Present or past tense? Now or then? We haven't been talking to each other. Past imperfect tense. How appropriate.
Megan McCafferty
Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test.
Megan McCafferty
I used to think that I wouldn't change anything from my past, because doing so would inevitably affect who I am now. But considering my current state, I'm thinking it might not be a bad idea to go back in time to fix things.
Megan McCafferty
furious flutter awakened hummingbird heart hello hello love
Megan McCafferty
Love, he said, has the longest arms.
Megan McCafferty
I know it makes sense for me and him to just break up now and just live our seperate lives and not have to worry about missing each other all the time. But when I think about that, I get sick. Physically sick. Like I seriously throw up. I need to be with him, even if I can’t, like, be with him.
Megan McCafferty
