Meghan Simoneau > Meghan's Quotes

“Life hack: if you don’t want someone asking you questions, say the word tampon, and the conversation ends.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Score

“We notice the silence of men. We depend upon the silence of women.”
― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

“The thought that babies would become children, and children would become people, never occurred to them. The concept that perhaps biology was not destiny, and that not all little girls would be pretty princesses, and not all little boys would be brave soldiers, also never occurred to them. Things might have been easier if those ideas had ever slithered into their heads, unwanted but undeniably important. Alas, their minds were made up, and left no room for such revolutionary opinions.”
― Seanan McGuire, Down Among the Sticks and Bones

“We can’t say what we would do in other circumstances. We can only know what we will do with the ones we face.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Maybe in Another Life

“Then let the world know that my first act of freedom was to help my friends.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“Through love, all is possible.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Earth and Blood

“Sometimes that’s all you can do. Just keep getting through until you don’t have to do it anymore, however much time that takes, however difficult it is.”
― Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky

“When she was sick and tired of being sick and tired, she clung to moments like this: the first shower after a flare-up. Bliss should be held on to with both hands.”
― Talia Hibbert, Get a Life, Chloe Brown

“If you want to help her, you need to help yourself first. No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion.”
― Seanan McGuire, In an Absent Dream

“People always mean something. Sometimes what they mean is 'you can't be trusted to remember to be kind', and then I want to bury them up to their necks in marshmallow fluff, so they'll remember how I choose kindness every single day”
― Seanan McGuire, Come Tumbling Down

“But they have not seen their sun die. Their people burn. Their world end. And they do not know, yet, that there are some breaks that cannot be fixed.”
― Amie Kaufman, Aurora Rising

“We shouldn’t assume that women and girls don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy. We don’t fear that men who read murder mysteries and thrillers are going to have a hard time not becoming serial killers, so why should we assume that a girl won’t know that she doesn’t have to change from a mermaid to human in order to find love just because of a movie?”
― Lyssa Kay Adams, The Bromance Book Club

“How can we expect people to change if we don't give them the chance to?”
― Marissa Meyer, Renegades

“I think it's very important to remember that no relationship, or friendship, is defined by one moment. It's an accumulation of all the moments we spend together. All the little ways in which we say I love you or I respect you or You are important to me add up. And that cannot be erased with a few careless words.”
― Amie Kaufman

“I think you’re confusing suicide with self-destruction, and they’re very different. Almost none of us commit suicide, whereas almost all of us self-destruct. Somehow. In some part of our lives. We drink, or take drugs, or destabilize the happy job”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“It's simple to love someone on the days that are easy. But you find out what your love is made of on the days that are hard.”
― Jay Kristoff, LIFEL1K3

“But when you're looking down the barrel at your own funeral, even doing something stupid sounds better than doing nothing at all.”
― Jay Kristoff, DEV1AT3

“It's hard to drown your sorrows when the little bastards can swim.”
― Jay Kristoff, TRUEL1F3

“You know I take the Knight of Courage as my patron. There is courage, I think, in open-mindedness, and thinking for oneself. If you are a witch, then perhaps witches are not so wicked after all.”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree

“when a person brings you more hurt than happiness, you’re allowed to let them go.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Blood & Honey

“...it is sad, of course, to forget.
But it is a lonely thing, to be forgotten.
To remember when no one else does.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Men were the worst kind of heroes. Riddled with flaws they refused to see.”
― Renée Ahdieh, The Beautiful

“Young women died. Life resumed. Such was the way of the world, at least according to men.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Wicked

“I laugh because this feels genuinely impossible. How does one move on from a man so kind of heart and fine of ass?”
― Christina Lauren, In a Holidaze

“Some truths do nothing but destroy and decay what they do not obliterate. Truths do not always set one free. Only a fool who has spent their entire life being fed lies believes that.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, From Blood and Ash

“You will respect me!” Eldas shouts. “Be someone worthy of respecting first!” I slam the door behind me.”
― Elise Kova, A Deal with the Elf King

“So Nesta had become a wolf. Armed herself with invisible teeth and claws, and learned to strike faster, deeper, more lethally. Had relished it. But when the time came to put away the wolf, she'd found it had devoured her too.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Silver Flames

“Make your life more about letting in the good things than preventing the bad things.”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“Real life certainly wasn't anything close to a romance novel, but there was still a small part of the old me left that hoped for a happy ending”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Cursed

“A beautiful thing was much harder to destroy than an ugly thing.”
― K.J. Sutton, Fortuna Sworn