Top 50 Megan Chance Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “In the end, there’s only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don’t lie.”

— Megan Chance

2. “Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don’t understand.”

— Megan Chance

3. “You learned to run from what you feel, and that’s why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.”

— Megan Chance

4. “People forget that old women were young once, but d’you think we old women forget? In my heart, I’m still thirty.”

— Megan Chance

5. “Trying to justify a world we don’t hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it’s better just to accept that things are as we see them.”

— Megan Chance

6. “Omnia Mundi Fumus et Umbra.”

— Megan Chance

7. “Logic only tells us what’s there; it can’t really address what isn’t. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.”

— Megan Chance

8. “All life’s a risk, that’s what makes it interesting.”

— Megan Chance

9. “Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven’t you learned that by now?”

— Megan Chance

10. “Is it optimism or madness that keeps one forging ahead despite failure after failure?”

— Megan Chance

11. “The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe.”

— Megan Chance

12. “Glitterdust across a broad expanse of blue. Before me, the water unfurled like dark swaths of shadowed silk, colors muted, reflections cast by the lamps hanging from the prows of the gondolas rippling, and my heart swelled at the beauty and the romance of it.”

— Megan Chance

13. “The material world is simply an expression of the mind; that’s what so many fail to see. We’re so dependent on what is before us that we discount our intuition. Yet if one dismisses instinct, how can one understand or believe in a world that exists beyond one’s sight?”

— Megan Chance

14. “Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.”

— Megan Chance

15. “Now here was beautiful, vibrant Goldie, saying that we would be the best of friends, and I was foolish enough to think it was what I wanted above all else.”

— Megan Chance

16. “I cannot explain how it begins, or why it happens, what strange alchemy puts such things in motion.”

— Megan Chance

17. “The answers are what they are. Just because you don’t like them doesn’t mean they aren’t true.”

— Megan Chance

18. “There are many opportunities in a life. It’s not a failing to take whatever comes one’s way. In fact, I rather think it a strength.”

— Megan Chance

19. “The echo of my thought startled me. The weight of the future it contained frightened me more than anything else.”

— Megan Chance

20. “A ghost. Smoke and dust and shadow. Nothing substantial until I chose to be, and when I did, no one would ever underestimate me again.”

— Megan Chance

21. “I’ve invented it, because there is no other word that celebrates the genius that is me.”

— Megan Chance

22. “My ever-present loneliness only grew worse. How could I complain? I’d come from nothing. I was the luckiest girl in the world. I had a family now. How ungrateful I was, to want anything more.”

— Megan Chance

23. “All facade, all vacant, enjoyment without sustenance, celebration without boundaries or purpose.”

— Megan Chance

24. “The earth had set me free. The city was at my feet. I forgot where I was and that I had not touched a pencil in months.”

— Megan Chance

25. “One day you’ll want for nothing. You don’t belong here. You are meant for something finer than this.”

— Megan Chance

26. “I’m still trying to figure out where you belong.” “What is there to wonder about? I’m one of the Sporting set. You said it yourself.”

— Megan Chance

27. “It was all terrifyingly close and painfully hollow, the prison that neither I nor my mother had ever seen in the life she’d chosen for me.”

— Megan Chance

28. “Remember who you are.” “The Sullivans have stolen from me, and I want back what’s mine.”

— Megan Chance

29. “Dozens. I’ve been drawing them forever. It was a way to – ” I stopped, surprised that I’d almost said the truth about my mother and what these drawings had meant, about the future I’d been promised, my loneliness and need.”

— Megan Chance

30. “Remember who you are, May.” The balm of my mother’s oft-repeated words and the softness of memory banished my unease. I flew down the stairs to the party.”

— Megan Chance

31. “I will not tell her that you sold our family home in Newport without telling me and then left me in the cold with nothing because you were so jealous that Charles preferred me. I will not do this because you are all May has left. She.”

— Megan Chance

32. “Don’t you wonder what happened, Goldie?” “What happened to what?” “To our family. Aunt Florence just told me that she and my mother were close. Like twins, she said.”

— Megan Chance

33. “People see what they want to see. They’re busy trying to figure out who Bandersnitch is, but what they don’t expect is someone who looks like me, so no one sees me, even when I’m right in front of them. I’m hiding in plain sight. I stay in the background mostly. It’s a damnable thing, but it works. You were surprised at who I was, remember. I wasn’t as you imagined me.”

— Megan Chance

34. “How little they thought about anything but their own amusement. Their lives were so easy, so full of beauty and money. How much they could do with it, and how disappointing to find them so vacant.”

— Megan Chance

35. “Look at what I am, Miss May. No one here believes a Chinaman. You will be putting yourself in your uncle’s hands once more. Is that what you wish? Better to be dead.”

— Megan Chance

36. “Heat and wind and poisonous smoke.”

— Megan Chance

37. “Just remember, my dear, not to judge so harshly. There are two sides to every story.”

— Megan Chance

38. “You must tell me the truth. I’ve seen you sneak out. I know it must be where you go.”

— Megan Chance

39. “City hall was a disaster. My uncle’s fault, and China Joe had the proof of it.”

— Megan Chance

40. “So close. Yet not close enough that either had mentioned the other to her family – even to the point that my mother had not included her sister in her story of the Exposition. My.”

— Megan Chance

41. “It took some time for the hierarchy of Blessington to make sense.”

— Megan Chance

42. “Life is short. No need for it to be boring too.”

— Megan Chance

43. “Again, that sense of being stifled, cloistered, removed from the world and locked away.”

— Megan Chance

44. “The Sullivans are not well known for their generosity.”

— Megan Chance

45. “I did not know how to say that, nor how to tell Goldie that I had not lived the life she obviously thought I had.”

— Megan Chance

46. “My inheritance had become available, my aunt – my only champion – had been killed, and my uncle had been given power over my person and my money.”

— Megan Chance

47. “No one had ever told me I was not a poor relation. They meant to steal from me and keep me believing I was beholden to them.”

— Megan Chance

48. “Then, at last, I had what I didn’t know I was looking for: the antidote to my loneliness, which shriveled and withered away. Until that moment, I hadn’t realized how much of me it had been.”

— Megan Chance

49. “The earth giveth, and the earth taketh away.”

— Megan Chance

50. “I understand there’s a history of madness in your family.”

— Megan Chance