Fracture Quotes

“I hadn't known that a light could be a feeling and a sound could be a color and a kiss could be both a question and an answer. And that heaven could be the ocean or a person or this moment or something else entirely.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“If you had one day left to live, what would you do?”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“A cut. That's what I felt. Words can cut, slice, like a razor.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“Alot can happen in eleven minutes. Decker can run two miles in eleven minutes. I once wrote an English essay in ten. And God knows Carson Levine can talk a girl out of her clothes in less then half that time.
Eleven minutes might as well be eternity underwater. It only takes three minutes without air for loss consciousness. Permanent brain damange begins at four minutes. And then, when the oxygen runs out, full cardiac arrest occurs. Death is possible at five minutes. Probable at seven. Definite at ten.
Decker pulled me out at eleven.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“I wasn't athletic and had no desire to work out, so I watched what I ate. Correction: I ate what I wanted and felt guilty about it later.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“I leaned against my door, struggling to catch my breath, and thought that maybe hell wasn't a place at all, but a thing. A contagious thing. A thing that could creep up the steps, seep through the crack under my door, grow horns and sprout fire - smelling faintly like sulfur. A thing that could sink its tendrils inside and take root, coloring everything gray and distorting a smile into a sneer. And while i got dressed for the play, swatted at my back and kept running my hands over my stomach because I could feel it, I swear, I could feel it reaching for me, trying to grab hold.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“The first time I died, I didn't see God. No light at the end of the tunnel. No haloed angels. No dead grandparents. To be fair, I probably wasn't a solid shoo-in for Heaven. But, honestly, I kind of assumed I'd make the cut.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“Truth is, I don't know. I don't know... what I'm doing. Or why I'm doing it," he said. Which was the worst excuse in the history of excuses. "I don't know what's up or down anymore. I feel like I'm..." He stopped speaking and winced.
"Drowning," I said. "You were going to say you feel like you're drowning."
He nodded. I wonder how many people I took with me when I feel into the lake. How many sunk with me. I thought I had been alone under the water, but maybe I wasn't.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“I hoped he'd take his dog and drive down to the ocean. I hoped there was still time. I pictured him sitting on the gray rocks with the waves crashing and spraying white foam. Maybe he'd hear something in the roar of the ocean, feel some limitless power, believe that there's something greater. Something more. Maybe his heaven was at the coast, with a dog's head in his lap, with nothing but water and depth from there to the horizon." -Delaney”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“I think...I think its always been you who was dying,"- Delaney”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“Funny hoe everything can change in an instant. From death to life. From empty to full. From darkness to light.
Or maybe I just wasn't looking. I hadn't known that light could be a feeling and sound could be a color and a kiss could be both a question and an answer. And that heaven could be the ocean or a person or this moment or something else entirely.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“We were in a pit. Fitting. This was, after all, my hell. This pit around the lake. The lake that had taken so much. My friendship with Decker. My humanity. Quite nearly my life. And I was so angry with it. I wasn't scared anymore. I was furious.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“When I went from feeling nothing to everything and couldn't stop screaming because it turned out the everything was blinding pain.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“To what do I owe the pleasure of your company?" he said.
I placed my hands flat on the table and leaned across it. "Stay the hell away from him."
"Who? Oh, you mean the guy who's gonna bite it soon?"
"He's not. He's going to be fine."
He reached a hand out and placed it over my own. I snatched my hand back. He shook his head at me and whispered, "You can't stop it."
"Watch me.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“Decker went to Greece a few summers ago and showed me pictures from his trip.

"Aren't these awesome?" he had said, pointing out photographs of the ancient ruins.

"Awesome" I agreed, but I felt dizzy. The ruins were just a reminder that what had been was no longer. That everything we are will be gone someday. That I will be forgotten.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“That hell can be temporary. That there's a way out.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“Funny how everything can change in an instant. From death to life. From empty to full. From darkness to light.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“I wasn't sure who I was most scared of at the moment. The stranger I was learning about too quickly, or the woman I'd known my entire life that was quickly becoming a stranger.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“Maybe hell was just an absence of something. A void waiting to be filled.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“My brain scrambled to make room for the existene of these people. Grandparents I'd never known. They went from hypothetical, empty memories to blurry, unformed shapes in my head. Dead one second, alive the next.
Kind of like me.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“Funny how everything can change in an instant.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“Or maybe I just wasn't looking. I hadn't known that a light could be a feeling and a sound could be a color and a kiss could be both a question and an answer. And that heaven could be the ocean or a person or this moment or something else entirely. But today, heaven was a wood-floored room with blue walls and a messy desk and Decker not letting go. He was still holding onto me.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“I'm okay," I said again, because if I said it enough, maybe it'd be true.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“I breathed in deeply, feeling immediately at ease. I loved the smell of books. I kept breathing in until I felt too light, like I was inhaling all the knowledge from the books and there was no place for the information to go.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“Then there was this empty silence-a hole in the noisy crowd. Troy watched me, Dad watched Troy watching me, and I watched Dad watching Troy watching me. I cleared my throat and said, "It's getting late.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“Decker”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“And then I understood: the worst part about drowning is the undying hope that maybe, just maybe, you're not.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“Funny how everything can change in an instant. From death to life. From empty to full. From darkness to light. Or maybe I just wasn't looking. I hadn't known that a light could be a feeling and a sound could be a color and a kiss could be both a question and an answer. And that heaven could be the ocean or a person or this moment or something else entirely.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“I didn't know how to fix us. How to go back and unsay all the things I said. How to tell him all the things I'd been unable to say. And after all that, would there be anything left underneath? Was there anything worth saving?”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture

“But there was a chasm, too much said, too much unsaid, to go back. Or forward.”
― Megan Miranda, Fracture