Top 40 Megan Shepherd Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “A smile can hide so much. A smile can be a lie.”

— Megan Shepherd

2. “A trip to the library is like coming home and going on an adventure at the same time.”

— Megan Shepherd

3. “You and me, we look out for each other. But I will take care of you a little extra, because I am your person, and you will always be my special horse.”

— Megan Shepherd

4. “They always said crazy people never knew they were crazy.”

— Megan Shepherd

5. “Sometimes you remind me so much of your father it’s frightening.”

— Megan Shepherd

6. “There’s dark magic there,” Luc warned. “Creatures who like the cold, who like girls who wander into their woods. Whatever you do, don’t let them kiss you.”

— Megan Shepherd

7. “Sometimes mistakes are worth making.”

— Megan Shepherd

8. “I was afraid that I’d forgotten all the colors of the rainbow, but I know just where I can find them again.”

— Megan Shepherd

9. “It isn’t about the sharpness of the blade, but the hand that holds it.′ Science doesn’t do good or ill by itself- it’s the intention behind it.”

— Megan Shepherd

10. “All men like him ever see are aprons. I could be Mada Vittora risen from the dead, but if I had a mop in my hand he’s still just ask for tea.”

— Megan Shepherd

11. “I can’t stop midnight.”

— Megan Shepherd

12. “She’d loved Mada Vittora once. A twisted, misunderstood love, but even the cruelest forms of love were never lost without heartache.”

— Megan Shepherd

13. “Miss Juliet,′ he said calmly. ‘I can smell you in the wall. Is something wrong?”

— Megan Shepherd

14. “The Beast had been a monster. He’d been a murderer. And yet on some terrible, deep level, he had been the only one to truly understand me.”

— Megan Shepherd

15. “She stayed up late most nights, dressed in a housecoat in the library until all hours, wearing reading glasses not unlike the professor’s wire spectacles, drinking licorice tea laced with gin – she didn’t know that I knew – and staring out the window at the city lights.”

— Megan Shepherd

16. “Flesh, blood, bone – the body is only a container for who we truly are inside.”

— Megan Shepherd

17. “How do you ignore the voices in your head? The ones that won’t let you just be happy. The ones that want more out of life. More like what men are free to do – study what they want, go where they want, BE who they want.”

— Megan Shepherd

18. “Love wasn’t just a combination of matching physical and personal criteria. It was something you couldn’t put into words, just a certainty, a twist of fate, a spark.”

— Megan Shepherd

19. “Perhaps they never die at all. I quite believe that myself, and it is a comfort, don’t you think? That there is a place where no one ever grows old?”

— Megan Shepherd

20. “The longer I sat there, barely able to breathe, the more I recognized that just because society said something was one way hardly meant it was right.”

— Megan Shepherd

21. “Only humans could write such pain and love, could make her swoon one minute and cry the next over something that had never really happened to people who’d never really existed.”

— Megan Shepherd

22. “We’ve scrambled for our lives,” she said softly. “Now we have to scramble for our world.”

— Megan Shepherd

23. “Beauty had a way of masking something darker.”

— Megan Shepherd

24. “Love can sometimes do the impossible.”

— Megan Shepherd

25. “You aren’t made for sweeping floors, little beastie,” he said quietly. “Don’t you know that?”

— Megan Shepherd

26. “Dying wasn’t so bad, not really. Not when you could go out like this, on a summer’s evening with the fireflies winking in the trees. She always thought dying would be a scream into a void, a thrashing, a searing. Not this slow and sleepy drip.”

— Megan Shepherd

27. “Well, a day and a half ago I was trying to tear you apart too, Cricket. And look at us now. One big happy family whose members haven’t attempted to murder one another in at least a few hours.”

— Megan Shepherd

28. “Breahe, my dearie. You look on the verge of shattering. You are each so strong in your own way. Beau has a steady strength, like a tree. Cricket is a bright strength, like lighting. But your strength, ah, yours is quiet. There’s a reason magic is called whisper, not shouts.”

— Megan Shepherd

29. “Apparently profanity had a way of making men listen.”

— Megan Shepherd

30. “Hate the part of him that gave in to madness. But don’t hate your father, not all of him. There was a time when he loved you very much, and that’s what you should remember.”

— Megan Shepherd

31. “It rankled Anouk – they shouldn’t ever have to be anything other than themselves.”

— Megan Shepherd

32. “If she thought the blood on Anouk’s clothes or the fact that Anouk was barefoot and missing two toes was odd, she didn’t bat an eye.”

— Megan Shepherd

33. “Luc understood that doing what was right and what was necessary were two different things.”

— Megan Shepherd

34. “He asked for a knife,” she said. “What do you think that means? It’s not for eclairs, I can promise you that.”

— Megan Shepherd

35. “The dark thing inside her wasn’t timid and plain, wasn’t the type to skitter around the edges of a room, fearful of every footsetep.”

— Megan Shepherd

36. “Writing a book is like telling a stranger your secrets.”

— Megan Shepherd

37. “I am a monster because I have too much of something.”

— Megan Shepherd

38. “No serum can vhange who you are. Nor should you change. Genius or madness – it al depends on who’s telling the story.”

— Megan Shepherd

39. “To make the right decision you must understand both paths before you,” he said quietly. “You must know your demons before you know whether to follow them.”

— Megan Shepherd

40. “Curiosity shivered up my spine.”

— Megan Shepherd

41. “The hardest thing to write is a sentence that says as much as a page.”

— Megan Shepherd

42. “Sure enough, the door swung open and his wonderfully ugly face looked back at me.”

— Megan Shepherd

43. “Don’t say it,” I said, almost a plea. “I love Montgomery.” But deep inside, my God, I wanted him to say it. To kiss me feverishly and end this terrible pull between us.”

— Megan Shepherd

44. “And it was true, there were rocks and there was smog, but there was also stars. The city was like life itself: good and bad, pretty and ugly, kindness and cruelty all in one. But most important, it simply was. And that felt like a kind of magic too.”

— Megan Shepherd

45. “We fly above the spectral shield that shall never be quite finished, but it’s all right. We are our own prism of light now.”

— Megan Shepherd

46. “I had forgotten what I loved about the piano. The precision of the notes and the mathematical intricacy of the notes and measures. It was like a complicated equation that you work out with your heart instead of pencil and paper.”

— Megan Shepherd