Meg Farrell > Meg's Quotes

“I've always thought the most beautiful part of the day was the sunset. Today has changed my mind. I'll always see a sunset as an amazingly beautiful feature of nature, but dawn has become my new favorite. Something about the new day bringing renewed hope for all life. I'm full of gratitude when I see the dawn as an opportunity to start over. And we get a do-over every single day.”
― Meg Farrell, Finding Alana

“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
― Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock

“I am different, not less.”
― Temple Grandin

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“You don't know this yet. But you are Mine
- Wrath”
― J.R. Ward, Dark Lover

“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
― Ivan Turgenev

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“The simple act of thinking his name fills my mind with all the things I miss about him, and that is everything. I'm still in love with him.”
― Meg Farrell, Melody's Song

“Freedom come at a price... a price that must be paid.”
― Meg Farrell, The Caged Bird

“You will love me, Melody. Those are the only stakes.”
― Meg Farrell, Melody's Song

“Saying her name aloud fills an empty space in my heart ... I've never been shy with women but, then, I've never met someone like her.”
― Meg Farrell, The Caged Bird

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“The road won't always be easy but it will be worth it.”
― Cas McCullough

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune