Quotes from Megan Hart

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.

Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It's those that bring us grief that linger.

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

You don't have to be sad to miss someone and wish they were still in your life.

When you find someone who makes you smile and laugh, when you find someone who makes you feel safe…you shouldn't let that person go just because you're afraid.

Can I tell you honestly that I'd rather be in your life as your friend than nothing at all?

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.

From the first time you laughed with me, all those months, and all those stories," Joe said quietly. "They were all you, to me. All of them were you.

If I'd known it was going to be the last time he'd ever hold me, I'd have paid better attention.

Love is always real, even when it doesn't last.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Scars are proof we can can survive

Memory can refuse to let you forget what you'd like to and run away with what you want to remember. It's an unreliable bitch, or your best friend. Sometimes, it's both at once.

But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.

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

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.

But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.

There are many things I don't know, but quite a few I do. I know you can't be lost if you know where you are. I know that life is full of precious and fragile things, and not all of them are pretty. I know that the sun follows the moon and makes days, one after another. Time passes. The world turns, and we turn with it, and though we can never go back to the beginning, sometimes, we can start again.