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 More Quotes by Megan Hart More Quotes From Megan Hart What are you, Elle? Are you a ghost? Are you an angel or a demon? Because you can’t be real. Megan Hart angel real ghost 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 normal men past Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up. Megan Hart pointless giving-up tasks All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people. Megan Hart stars men people Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it's less terrifying than trying for joy. Nobody wants to admit it. We'd all declare we want to be happy, if we could. So why, then, is pain the one thing we most often hold on to? Why are slights and griefs the memories on which we choose to dwell? Is it because joy doesn't last but grief does? Megan Hart pain grief memories I was trying to replace something I'd come to care about very much with something pretending to be as important. Megan Hart care important trying I've done my best to drive you away, Sadie," he said suddenly. "But you've never left me. Megan Hart sadie done said We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him. Megan Hart pretense understood changed There's nothing that says you can't change." "Not even if it changes everything else?" I shook my head. "Not even then. Megan Hart cant-change ifs Bess had become the ocean, always breaking against the rocks but never staying broken. Her love was the ocean, too, endless and always changing, yet forever the same. Megan Hart rocks ocean broken Macy: "Listen, I can't pretend to be the queen of good advice, here. I've had more boyfriends than I can count, and I'm not so sure that's any better than not having any. But I do know this. 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." Elle: "And you're not afraid of it ending?" Macy: "Sure I am, But I'd rather have something this good for a little while than have nothing forever Megan Hart queens forever laughing Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so low? Megan Hart creativity artist doe Sometimes, 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 Hart whatever-it-takes sometimes way Sometimes,” he said after a second that lasted a million years, “things get broken. And they can’t be fixed. Megan Hart broken sometimes years They’re like sharks. Circling. Cute, single guy, good job, nice car. It’s all they know about me.” His tone was light but his expression serious. Maybe that’s because it’s all you show them.” Maybe it’s all they want to see. Megan Hart nice cute jobs Scars are proof we can can survive Megan Hart scar proof I knew him, but I don't understand him. Megan Hart 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 roles quiet long 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 hold-me lasts attention My head's filled up with all the reasons it won't work. And I keep running the figures, over and over, but I can't seem to come up with an answer. Megan Hart filled-up answers running