Quotes from Fourth Comings

“I wish our love was right now.”
― Megan McCafferty, quote from Fourth Comings

“I’m not sure I’ll ever be finished. No matter how much I write, there will always be something I should’ve said.”
― Megan McCafferty, quote from Fourth Comings

“Since I’ve known you, you’ve been spinning and spinning and spinning into all these various personas, and none of this self-exploration and experimentation has given you a sense of peace. I’ve known you for six years, intimately for four, and I still have no idea who I’m in love with.”
― Megan McCafferty, quote from Fourth Comings

“And so I’ll let you go, and let it be.

Whatever”
― Megan McCafferty, quote from Fourth Comings

“I love you, too."
But this hopeful farewell does little to bring peace of mind, even now.
Loving you has never been the problem.
What's troubling me is how loving you may never be enough.”
― Megan McCafferty, quote from Fourth Comings

“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, quote from Fourth Comings

“I love you.
And I want you, too.
But.
However.
Unfortunately ...”
― Megan McCafferty, quote from Fourth Comings

“What I envy most about you and everyone else heading back to school is the certainty of it all. You’ve got a prescribed set of requirements to guide you through the next few years. Focus your energy on the completion of those assignments and you’ll succeed. Guaranteed. Where’s my syllabus to guide me through life?”
― Megan McCafferty, quote from Fourth Comings

“...he makes me feel out of control and out of my head. He is exhilarating and terrifying. I see and feel him everywhere, and I'm always grasping for equilibrium even when he's not there... I feel like I'm always falling in love, falling and falling and falling.”
― Megan McCafferty, quote from Fourth Comings

“You can only really really hurt the ones that you really really love.”
― Megan McCafferty, quote from Fourth Comings

“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, quote from Fourth Comings

“He's got a pointy bald head, and too much flesh hanging around his neck. The resulting combination gives him an unlikely yet striking resemblance to an uncircumcised penis. I secretly call him Rumpelforeskin.”
― Megan McCafferty, quote from Fourth Comings

“Where's my syllabus to guide me through life?”
― Megan McCafferty, quote from Fourth Comings

“As our options expand, so do our desires - and unmet desires in particular.”
― Megan McCafferty, quote from Fourth Comings

“I’m living with K-Fed’s retarded half brotha/sista.”
― Megan McCafferty, quote from Fourth Comings

“I am fluent in snark.
Bethany only notices snark when snark grabs her off the sidewalk, throws her in the back of a sketchy van with tinted windows, drives to the middle
of the Meadow-lands in the dead of night, and uses a heavy blunt instrument
to smack her repeatedly about the head as it screams, “I’M SNARK. DO YOU FUCKING HEAR ME? I’M SNARKY SNARKY SNARK!” And even then she’s like, “Ohhhh? Snark? Is that you?”
― Megan McCafferty, quote from Fourth Comings

“Well, so much for the D’Abruzzi Pussy Legacy. Is nothing sacred?”
― Megan McCafferty, quote from Fourth Comings

“This confirms it: I am living with Beavis and sluthead.”
― Megan McCafferty, quote from Fourth Comings

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“How is faith to endure, O God, when you allow all this scraping and tearing on us? You have allowed rivers of blood to flow, mountains of suffering to pile up, sobs to become humanity's song--all without lifting a finger that we could see. You have allowed bonds of love beyond number to be painfully snapped. If you have not abandoned us, explain yourself.

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