Top 60 Megan Miranda Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you had one day left to live, what would you do?”

— Megan Miranda

2. “We were a town full of fear, searching for answers. But we were also a town full of liars.”

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3. “Funny how everything can change in an instant. From death to life. From empty to full. From darkness to light.”

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4. “There is nothing more dangerous, nothing more powerful, nothing more necessary and essential for survival than the lies we tell ourselves. I.”

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5. “All things happen in an instant. Everything could change in a moment.”

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6. “I weigh my words before I say them. They’re one thing I do have control over. And so I am purposeful with them. Deliberate. I decide what to give and what to hide. I watch for reactions. I study their impact.”

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7. “And time standing perfectly, painfully still. It’s just a thing we created. A measure of distance. A way to understand. A way to explain things. It can weave around and show you things if you let it.”

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8. “The danger is everywhere. It’s everyone. It’s the parts we keep hidden, and the darkness inside, fighting to get out. The only thing I did was take people down with me. They tied themselves to my anchor, and we fell.”

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9. “Time isn’t running out. It’s not even real, It’s just a measure of distance we made up to understand things. Like an inch. Or a mile. Clocks do not measuring time. They creat it!”

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10. “People were like Russian nesting dolls – versions stacked inside the latest edition. But they all still lived inside, unchanged, just out of sight.”

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11. “Missing girls had a way of working their way into someone’s head. You couldn’t help but see them in everyone – how temporary and fragile we might be. One moment here, and the next, nothing more than a photo staring from a storefront window.”

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12. “Here’s the thing I’ve learned about leaving – you can’t really go back.”

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13. “There were tiny moments, like this, when the grief came on strong out of nowhere. It was sneaky, and tricky, and you couldn’t see it coming until it was already there. It came with the mundane, simple tasks: My mother would never be hanging pink streamers at my shower. I would never lean over to someone and conspiratorially whisper, My mother is crazy. She would never become a grandmother. Laura.”

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14. “Time isn’t running out. It’s not even real,” he said, and I knew I had lost him – he was lost, circling in his own mind. “It’s just a measure of distance we made up to understand things. Like an inch. Or a mile.” He moved his hands as he spoke, to accentuate the point. “That clock,” he said, pointing behind him. “It’s not measuring time. It’s creating it. You see the difference?”

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15. “Promises made without clarity of thought still counted. A careless yes and you were bound.”

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16. “But the simple truth was that when a girl like Corinne loves you, you don’t ask why. You just hope it doesn’t change. Tyler.”

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17. “Maybe hell was just an absence of something. A void waiting to be filled.”

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18. “But here’s the thing I’ve learned about leaving- you can’t really go back. I don’t know what to do with Cooley Ridge anymore, and Cooley Ridge doesn’t know what to do with me, either. The distance only increases with the years. Most times, if I tried to shift it back into focus... all I’d see was a caricature of it in my mind: a miniature town set up on entryway tables around the holidays, everything frozen in time.”

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19. “My mother always wanted to live near the water,” she said. “She said it’s the one thing that brings us all together. That I can have my toe in the ocean off the coast of Maine, and a girl my age can have her toe in the ocean off the coast of Africa, and we would be touching. On opposite sides of the world.”

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20. “Amazing how something that happened so long ago can feel so fresh. How it could come back to haunt you from nowhere- the innocuous ring of a telephone, the past come to call from the other end.”

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21. “You change. But the past, it’s still there. The only thing moving is you.”

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22. “Time isn’t running out. It’s not even real,” he said, and I knew I had lost him – he was lost, circling in his own mind. “It’s just a measure of distance we made up to understand things. Like an inch. Or a mile.”

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23. “If I were a monster, I’d pretend to be human.”

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24. “Because the thing about standing here in the middle of the mountains with the rain coming down, in a house your grandfather built, is that it’s too easy to notice how insignificant you are. How quickly you might go from something to nothing.”

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25. “There’s no pattern to falling in love. At least, nothing I can understand. Not something I could see beforehand. Not something I can decipher after, either. Trust can be earned, piece by piece, like links of a chain. But love is more like faith, or belief: it’s a leap. It’s hurtling over the edge of the cliff and trusting you will not drown.”

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26. “The darkness lives in everyone. She knew this better than anyone. Everyone had two faces, and she looked deep into us until she found it.”

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27. “The past, boxed up and stacked out of sight. But never too far away.”

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28. “But here, the rain was just another part of the landscape. Like it was the thing that lived here and we were merely visitors.”

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29. “The monster made him do it. It lived in the woods, and this was its home, and it would speak to you only in a whisper that sounded like your own echo.”

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30. “But friends to call for the deep things, the things that live in the dark spaces of our hearts? Those people didn’t exist for me any longer.”

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31. “It wasn’t in church but in moments like this when I maybe believed in God or something like that. Some order to the chaos, some meaning. That we collide with the people we need, that we meet the ones who will love us, that there’s some underlying reason to everything.”

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32. “Intention is nice, but it’s a thing sometimes based more on hope than on reality.”

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33. “Missing girls had a way of working their way into someone’s head. You couldn’t help but see them in everyone – how temporary and fragile we might be.”

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34. “Do they not realize they have made me in her likeness? I think of what June is trying to lead me toward. What do they think I will do with it when I have no other options?”

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35. “The house felt different. Unsafe, unknown, too many possibilities existing all at once. Too many voices whispered back at me from the walls.”

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36. “But the truth is that the only reason I could understand what I was feeling in that moment was because I had spent years loving her.”

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37. “They say the universe is constantly heading towards disorder, and I believe it. Walls go up, and walls come down. Building crumble, governments fall, civilizations collapse. Stars explode. People live. People die. On and on it goes. Everything falls apart. Please don’t think I’m a pessimist. These are just the facts.”

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38. “It was so easy to pretend that everything was normal. We’ve always been great pretenders here.”

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39. “Surrounded by the mountains and the ocean, you became more than you were elsewhere.”

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40. “You couldn’t keep your secrets if you wanted someone else’s. You had to trade them all. It was only fair.”

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41. “We sit in a room together and are told to trust each other. We are taught that good is the default and evil is rare. And then we learn that good was the mask. That we trusted too easily. Now people keep telling us to think for ourselves, look out for ourselves, keep an eye out for one another, and report what we see. But who should we report to? If we’re not sure who to trust? How do we know who wears the mask?”

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42. “I breathed in deeply, feeling immediately at ease. I loved the smell of books. I kept breathing in until I felt too light, like I was inhaling all the knowledge from the books and there was no place for the information to go.”

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43. “I’ve known enough of loss to accept that grief may lose its sharpness with time, but memory only tightens. Moments replay.”

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44. “James says that sometimes true love requires sacrifice. Well, I’ll sacrifice my soul a thousand times over in order to stay with his.”

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45. “I’m okay,” I said again, because if I said it enough, maybe it’d be true.”

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46. “Who do you save in the moment, when you have the chance? The answer was simple, and obvious, and always, always the same: whoever you can.”

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47. “I know what it’s like to leave, to come back, to not fit. To feel that distance between you and everything you’ve ever known.”

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48. “But people must’ve realized what I too soon understood: that grief did not create anything that had not existed before. It only heightened what was already there. Removing the binds that once shielded me.”

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49. “The past always had a thousand ways in.”

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50. “There was no big falling-out; she just stopped answering her phone. Our friendship just kind of fizzled, like a sparkler burning down to your fingers. By the time you realize you were being burned, it was too late – the damage done, the spark already extinguished.”

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