Megan Howell > Megan's Quotes

“But I don’t know if I love him. I just hate him less
than everyone else...”
― Megan Howell, Softie: Stories

“Before I was born, I tried to kill myself. My dad told me how, according to the social worker who’d taken me, I’d wrapped myself up in my birth mom’s umbilical cord as a baby so that I almost choked to death.”
― Megan Howell, Softie: Stories

“Even when I was beautiful, I’d gotten hurt. I think I just wanted to be miserable in a way that made me feel beautiful.”
― Megan Howell, Softie: Stories

“Shame weighs Cherish down so heavily that she feels herself sinking all the way to hell.”
― Megan Howell, Softie: Stories

“At twenty-three, she knows that people never cease being their parents’ children even after they’re grown. That’s why Sarah and her are always saying they want to be rich, hot, childless aunties whom all their nieces look up to. That way they don’t have to risk the pain that comes with pulling smaller, more vulnerable people from their insides and into a dying planet.”
― Megan Howell, Softie: Stories

“So unfair: the people who hated me most were always the ones who were hard to hate back.”
― Megan Howell, Softie: Stories

“Well, when I'm your age, I hope that I'll have worked out something for myself, because I don't want to be free and lost all my life.”
― Mark Hyatt, Love, Leda

“Love sucks everything out of one. You yield to everything and you abandon everything for it. If that's not a death wish, what is?”
― Mark Hyatt, Love, Leda

“Because occasionally I am the victim of sex. Sometimes love. But both are fatal. And I feel that both have no real value other than the experience.”
― Mark Hyatt, Love, Leda

“Surely, if one's self can love Christ for what He was and what He did, then one's self should be able to love modern man?”
― Mark Hyatt, Love, Leda

“If I were God, I'd make men like myself.”
― Mark Hyatt, Love, Leda

“I want to lose all contact with this world, as if I were dead.”
― Mark Hyatt, Love, Leda

“For youth is the beggar of knowledge, oblivious of men's and women's feelings, unaware of love. Yet it cries for love, like the bird in the sky that cries for its own space.”
― Mark Hyatt, Love, Leda

“Adults spend their lives trying to remember what they knew originally as children and in the same breath they dismissed children's insights.”
― Stephanie Wambugu

“Adults spent their lives trying to remember what they knew originally as children and in the same breath they dismissed children's insights.”
― Stephanie Wambugu, Lonely Crowds: A Novel

“We were alone, quiet, but everything we weren’t saying sounded loud, so loud among that sunlight and glass.”
― Carrie R. Moore, Make Your Way Home: Stories