Top 100 Megan Hart Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I might be alone, but i’m never lonely.”

— Megan Hart

2. “It’s okay to struggle to find our place in this world and the person who will take us for who and what we are. Sometimes we dress ourselves in layers that only get peeled away in the end, to leave us as we should be.”

— Megan Hart

3. “Scars are proof we can can survive.”

— Megan Hart

4. “It is such a secret place, the land of tears. That is what the narrator ofThe Little Prince says after the little prince argues with him the first time about matters of consequence. And he was right. My land of tears had been a secret for a very long time.”

— Megan Hart

5. “In the end, only three things matter. How much you loved, how gently you lived and how gracefully you let go of that which is not meant for you.”

— Megan Hart

6. “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

7. “You don’t have to be sad to miss someone and wish they were still in your life.”

— Megan Hart

8. “Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up.”

— Megan Hart

9. “There seemed to be so much to say, but no words adequate to say it.”

— Megan Hart

10. “You can’t hurt someone who doesn’t care about you.”

— Megan Hart

11. “Feeling pressured into doing something I didn’t want to do for people I didn’t want to please.”

— Megan Hart

12. “Tears disturb and confuse men, but women know the relief they can bring. I didn’t cry because I couldn’t deal with my life, but because I could.”

— Megan Hart

13. “You know what they say. Best revenge is looking good, right?”

— Megan Hart

14. “Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It’s those that bring us grief that linger.”

— Megan Hart

15. “There is nothing crueler than the person who doesn’t want you enough to keep you, but who doesn’t love you enough to let you go.”

— Megan Hart

16. “You know what people do when they have to face something uncomfortable? They blame the thing that makes them feel bad, even if it’s not that thing’s fault.”

— Megan Hart

17. “I turned only halfway, gave him half my attention. Half of myself. “Are you ever going to be happy again?”

— Megan Hart

18. “Because my life’s been so much richer for having had her in it, you see. And I know I’ll see her again. I believe I will. I wouldn’t trade one minute of what we had together even if it meant I’d never have to feel this way.”

— Megan Hart

19. “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

20. “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

21. “Can I tell you honestly that I’d rather be in your life as your friend than nothing at all?”

— Megan Hart

22. “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

23. “Every day,” I tell him, “you will miss me either a little less or a little more. Until one day you will wake up and realize you don’t miss me at all, or you will find yourself incapable of living without me.”

— Megan Hart

24. “Sometimes people don’t need you to answer them. They only need you to help them say what they need to say.”

— Megan Hart

25. “All men have the stars, but they are not the same things for different people.”

— Megan Hart

26. “Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.”

— Megan Hart

27. “The hardest lies to detect are the ones surrounded by truth.”

— Megan Hart

28. “One must have sorrow to truly appreciate joy.”

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29. “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

30. “We were broken, brittle and fragile. The question was, were we still precious to each other? Or, instead of everything falling into place, had it fallen into pieces?”

— Megan Hart

31. “Choices. We all make them, sometimes more than once. Sometimes it’s the choices we make over and over that define us, but more often it’s the choices we don’t make.”

— Megan Hart

32. “If you want to know how someone really feels, you almost never have to ask.”

— Megan Hart

33. “Time has that funny way of smoothing out the rough edges of things, even ones that hurt a little bit. Or a lot.”

— Megan Hart

34. “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

35. “Sometimes love takes you by the hand and leads you to run through fields of flowers while butterflies weave you a dress out of rainbows. Other times, love takes you by the throat and chokes you until all you see is the bright, sharp trail of shooting stars right before everything turns to black. The problem is, you can never tell in advance which way the story ends, not until you’re too far into it, and you have no choice but to keep turning the pages.”

— Megan Hart

36. “It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had.”

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37. “I’m not dense. It was a power struggle with a veneer of shiny.”

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38. “I knew him, but I don’t understand him.”

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39. “This is the truth. I have been in love. I have been in lust. I’ve made good choices and bad ones, I have been smart and I’ve been stupid. But I have never in my life felt the way I do now, here, with Will.”

— Megan Hart

40. “Sometimes, you ruined things and couldn’t fix them.”

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41. “Haunt me,” he whispered. “Make me crazy for the rest of my life. But please, Effie. Don’t leave me. Just let me love you.”

— Megan Hart

42. “I had no words to give him. No explanation. I didn’t understand it, myself. It scared me, but then so do roller coasters, and I ride them anyway, too.”

— Megan Hart

43. “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

44. “It was a doll’s smile. Plastic. She added a head-tilt and blank gaze.”

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45. “Everything changes,” I told him. “Eventually.”

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46. “If you’re lucky, the friends you make when you’re sixteen stay with you for the rest of your life. If you’re smart, you know when it’s time to let them go.”

— Megan Hart

47. “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

48. “A good sister is one who won’t be embarrassed when you burst into tears in public. A better one will hand you tissues until you stop. The best is the one who will go get you another latte to go with the ginormous chocolate orgy she’s already laid in front of you.”

— Megan Hart

49. “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

50. “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