“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, amazon.com
“People are complicated, and they hurt each other. Effie Linton had known this for a long time, just as she knew that sometimes those wounds were inflicted deliberately, over and over, and not with fists or weapons. Sometimes, they did it with love.”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“Love, when it goes, can sometimes burn to ash. And sometimes it can leave nothing.”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“He wants to pretend this is all accidental, but for me it isn't a game. I haven't simply let it happen. I'm falling because I jumped, and not because I tripped.”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“When you love someone, seeing them in pain can be harder than being in pain yourself.”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“I have seen clouds part for the sun. I have seen rainbows. I have seen flowers in the morning, covered in dew, and I have seen sunsets so brilliant with fire they have made me want to weep. And I have seen Dan smile at me, his lips still wet from my kiss, and if I had to choose which sight moved me…”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“It was the man beside me who'd proven to me that love was worth everything. That my life, my heart, had room in it for more love that I ever thought possible.”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“Some people live their entire life and never once feel how I felt every time he looked at me.”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“We look at each other without saying anything, both of us smiling like idiots. I heart is so full I can’t believe it can possibly still beat without bursting right in front of me. My desire for him is so fierce I’m afraid to stand, because I know my knees will be too weak to hold me up, but there’s…”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“I’m in love with him, and I think I’ve known that for a long time, but now I can’t stop myself from admitting it. I love the way he dances for me, trying to make me laugh, not caring if he looks a little like a fool. He is adorable and charming, and the breath leaves my lungs and my heart forgets to…”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“You don’t have to be sad to miss someone and wish they were still in your life.”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“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, amazon.com
“He hadn’t been her first lover or the first boy to give her an orgasm. He hadn’t even been the first she’d loved. He’d been the first to turn her inside out with something as simple as a smile. The first to make her doubt herself. He’d taken her deeper than anyone ever had, and yet she hadn’t drowne…”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“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.”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“I'd rather have something this good for a little while than have nothing forever.”— Megan Hart, amazon.com