“The past doesn't change no matter how much time you spend thinking about it. Good and bad all add up to the whole. Take away one piece, no matter how small, and the whole changes. Whether it's optimism, pessimism or fatalism, I don't spend my time wishing for the past to be different so present would be different, too. I control my future with what I choose now.”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“When everything changes we learn who we really are. What’s really important. What we want
most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray.”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“There are few times when we know with absolute certainty we are going to do something for the last time. Life has a way of moving in circles, bringing us back to places we didn’t expect
and taking us away from those we do. There are too many times we don’t pay close enough attention, and moments are lost in our assumption we’ll have another chance.”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“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, quote from Tempted
“Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It’s those that bring us grief that linger.”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“If you want to know how someone really feels, you almost never have to ask.”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“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.”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“Darkness reveals as much as it hides, sometimes.”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“Let him go. Let one of them go. Knowing it and doing it, two separate
accomplishments. Let one man go. The question had to be, which one?”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard brings
more satisfaction in the end.”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“There are few times when we know with absolute certainty we are going to do something for the last time. Life has a way of moving in circles, bringing us back to places we didn’t expect and taking us away from those we do. There are too many times we don’t pay close enough attention, and moments are lost in our assumption we’ll have another chance.”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“Individually there were things we lacked, but together we were perfect.”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“When you love someone, seeing them in pain can be harder than being in pain yourself.”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“Sometimes the picture someone else paints of us is a more accurate portrayal than a reflection. What we see in the mirror is always reversed. A portrait not only allows us to see our own faces, but how it looks to others.”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“We discover the truth in moments of disarray.”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“Feeling pressured into doing something I didn’t want to do for people I didn’t want to please.”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“heavy with The Cure and Depeche Mode, groups with lush instrumentals and heavy-duty lyrics about love, lust and life.”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“Most people who know they’ve fucked up manage to find a way to justify themselves.”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“The past doesn’t change no matter how much time you spend thinking about it. Good and bad all add up to the whole. Take away one piece, no matter how small, and the whole changes. Whether it’s optimism, pessimism or fatalism, I don’t spend my time wishing for the past to be different so the present would be different, too. I control my future with what I choose now. I’m the only one who does.”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“I love you,” I told him. “And all of this, our life, is everything I wished to have but wasn’t sure I could keep. I never felt like that with Alex, James. I always knew that what we shared wouldn’t last. He never belonged to me. Not the way you do.”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“I knew I’d sounded bitter, but I didn’t bend even when guilt threatened to throttle me with its bony fingers. “I hope it was worth it, Mom.”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“This one says they’ll place your ‘little blessing in disguise’ with a local ‘Christ-oriented family.’ What about the non-Christ-oriented families? Don’t they deserve the right to adopt kids?”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“She talked, he nodded. She was satisfied. He was oblivious.”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“I’m not sure a man can ever understand the complicated matter of feminine relationships.”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“And still, we said nothing, like we’d all been trained so well to do.”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“Faced with too many choices, my mother often chose none.”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“Everything was heat and sweat, bump ’n’ grind. Stroke and sigh.”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“my voice firm as I took charge. Keeping the surface polished.”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“More smiling. Fierce. I was getting a headache. I smiled.”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
“It would have been so much easier if he had. If he’d put his foot down and demanded we host my parents’ party someplace else. If he’d taken the choice from me, I could’ve blamed him for making what I wanted come true.”
― Megan Hart, quote from Tempted
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“Estoy tan enamorado de ti, y te necesito. Te necesito cada día. Tú eres mi fuerza y mi luz y, sin ti, no soy nada".”
― Sandi Lynn, quote from Forever Us
“I suppose that the human mind can only stand so much grief and anguish. After that the fuses blow.”
― Fynn, quote from Mister God, This is Anna
“She did not like seeing her loved ones like this, bent over with sorrow; everything in her wanted to cry out, to thrash and scream at the sight of it. But she knew that great grief came from great love, and that their grief was an honor to her. And she did love them so very much.”
― Anne Ursu, quote from The Shadow Thieves
“Abel wanted a traditional marriage with a traditional wife. For a long time I wondered why he ever married a woman like my mom in the first place, as she was the opposite of that in every way. If he wanted a woman to bow to him, there were plenty of girls back in Tzaneen being raised solely for that purpose. The way my mother always explained it, the traditional man wants a woman to be subservient, but he never falls in love with subservient women. He’s attracted to independent women. “He’s like an exotic bird collector,” she said. “He only wants a woman who is free because his dream is to put her in a cage.”
― Trevor Noah, quote from Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
“آن زندگی را که باعث نوشتن میشود نمیتوان روی کاغذ آورد. آن زندگی بی آنکه خود نویسنده بداند به پیش میرود. فارغ از اشتغالات فکری و هیاهو، در گودالهایی عمیق و تاریک که خاطرات شبحوار بهخاطر ما در آنجا نبرد میکنند، یکدیگر را از پا درمیآورند و در پایان که چندتاشان باقی میمانند در پیش چشم ما ظاهر میشوند، اما با همان برخورد بیاعتنایی مواجه میشوند که پیشخدمتها هنگام آوردن فنجانی قهوهی اضافه.”
― Tobias Wolff, quote from Old School
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