Top 100 Megan Hart Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “If nine planets in this universe can align, why can’t we?”

— Megan Hart

52. “Whatever task you’re set, find some way to love it. Sunny wondered if Josiah’s words applied to standing with a face of stone so the person in front of her wouldn’t know how much she wanted to scream.”

— Megan Hart

53. “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

54. “People think it is. Symmetry is pretty, sure. But real beauty, real true beauty, comes from flaws.”

— Megan Hart

55. “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

56. “I put a smile on and pretended it was real.”

— Megan Hart

57. “But sometimes it’s the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.”

— Megan Hart

58. “He put my fingertips to his mouth and kissed them. Licked the trace of blood away. Made them clean. Then I knew the truth I had been denying. He made me clean. Dan made me clean and shining and bright. He made me beautiful, and I did not want to lose him.”

— Megan Hart

59. “Sometimes grief is a comfort we grant ourselves because it’s less terrifying than trying for joy.”

— Megan Hart

60. “Could it really be so easy? Could someone who’d almost slipped through my fingers be within my grasp again – just like that? Maybe that’s the thing about real love... it comes easier than the kind you have to break yourself for.”

— Megan Hart

61. “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

62. “There is so much freedom in not having to choose.”

— Megan Hart

63. “Oh my God, you are such a dork,” she said, ran to the bedroom, and brought back his shirt. “Ah, thank.”

— Megan Hart

64. “Foolish. Stupid. I knew it. I knew my reaction was unreasonable, bu the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal said that, and I’ve always found it to be true.”

— Megan Hart

65. “I didn’t want to love him, but I didn’t want him not to love me.”

— Megan Hart

66. “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

67. “I could say his body was perfect and every part of it beautiful, because it was. Not because he had no flaws, but because I wanted him so desperately I couldn’t see any.”

— Megan Hart

68. “I waited for a long time and there was nothing but the pain of wanting something I couldn’t seem to find.”

— Megan Hart

69. “I will never stop loving you,” he told her. “If we live a thousand lifetimes, I will never stop.”

— Megan Hart

70. “Love is always real, even when it doesn’t last.”

— Megan Hart

71. “There’s no foreplay quite like youthful exploration, when each undone button is cause for exaltation.”

— Megan Hart

72. “There were some things that would never go away, no matter how long ago they’d become a habit or how you tried to get rid of them.”

— Megan Hart

73. “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

74. “Heath said, cold as ice, cold as a void, so cold it burned her worse than any fire. “Don’t you know? Not wanting to and not being able to are not the same things.”

— Megan Hart

75. “I’ve been hit on plenty of times, mostly by men with little finesse who thought what was between their legs made up for what they lacked between their ears.”

— Megan Hart

76. “I know everything and nothing about him all at the same time.”

— Megan Hart

77. “It’s easy to love someone when they’re all you know.”

— Megan Hart

78. “I feel the weight of his gaze all over me, covering me like a blanket.”

— Megan Hart

79. “Love comes in all shapes and flavors, and I just want to be able to taste them all.”

— Megan Hart

80. “I was trying to replace something I’d come to care about very much with something pretending to be as important.”

— Megan Hart

81. “I would rather have you haunt me, driving me mad, than have you leave me.”

— Megan Hart

82. “I’m not sure a man can ever understand the complicated matter of feminine relationships.”

— Megan Hart

83. “This book is for those who would rather be haunted and driven mad than left behind.”

— Megan Hart

84. “Sometimes you have to take your time to get your reward.”

— Megan Hart

85. “There had been times when missing him had felt like someone had reached inside her and pulled out the part of her that remembered how to breathe. And times when she’d barely given the memories of him a second’s worth of her time.”

— Megan Hart

86. “Will cries out, low, a murmur of blue and green and gold. The syllables of my name float between us. I’ve never seen my name that way, in those colors, not from any other voice.”

— Megan Hart

87. “And still, we said nothing, like we’d all been trained so well to do.”

— Megan Hart

88. “She talked, he nodded. She was satisfied. He was oblivious.”

— Megan Hart

89. “I want to tell you that you’ll know love when it hits you, and it will all be great and you’ll find that one person who makes your heart sing, the end, happily ever after. I want to do that for you, I really do. But I’m just not that person. I’m sorry.”

— Megan Hart

90. “What are you, Elle? Are you a ghost? Are you an angel or a demon? Because you can’t be real.”

— Megan Hart

91. “I made my goodbyes and stole away the photos of them in their youth, leaving them to what they’d made of their lives.”

— Megan Hart

92. “That was the thing about love, though, wasn’t it? When you loved somebody, you wanted to give them everything you could. You wanted what was best for them, no matter what. You wanted them to move beyond what was awful and terrible, beyond anything that had ever hurt them.”

— Megan Hart

93. “More smiling. Fierce. I was getting a headache. I smiled.”

— Megan Hart

94. “You learn more from the things that end.”

— Megan Hart

95. “Some people live their entire life and never once feel how I felt every time he looked at me. So yes, this hurts. And yes, I feel as if I might die. But I won’t. And somehow, I find a way to let it all go... just let it go. No regrets. No grief. It will always hurt a little, down deep in that secret place, but it’s become a pain I can handle. Besides, if it didn’t always hurt, just a little, it wouldn’t mean as much.”

— Megan Hart

96. “I got it together, of course. I always did. I pushed away what shamed me and made me unhappy, and I smoothed out the rest to make a pretty, perfect surface. It was getting harder and harder to do.”

— Megan Hart

97. “Shadows suited him. On James they skittered and fled, even in the dark, leaving him bright and shining. On Alex they clung and caressed, dressing him in mystery.”

— Megan Hart

98. “The past is gone, Claire. It’s like a sand castle washed away by the waves. We can remember what it looked like, but even if we build it again, it won’t be the exactly the same.”

— Megan Hart

99. “Faced with too many choices, my mother often chose none.”

— Megan Hart

100. “It was a kiss perfect in length and pressure and emotion, but unlike in the movies it didn’t make everything all better.”

— Megan Hart