Tempted Quotes

“The past doesn't change no matter how much time you spend thinking about it. Good and bad all add up to the whole. Take away one piece, no matter how small, and the whole changes. Whether it's optimism, pessimism or fatalism, I don't spend my time wishing for the past to be different so present would be different, too. I control my future with what I choose now.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“When everything changes we learn who we really are. What’s really important. What we want
most. We discover the truth in moments of disarray.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“There are few times when we know with absolute certainty we are going to do something for the last time. Life has a way of moving in circles, bringing us back to places we didn’t expect
and taking us away from those we do. There are too many times we don’t pay close enough attention, and moments are lost in our assumption we’ll have another chance.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“I looked at the cards in my hand, the queen of hearts nestled between the king of clubs and the king of spades. No wonder she was smiling.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“Good things, by their nature, are fleeting. It’s those that bring us grief that linger.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“If you want to know how someone really feels, you almost never have to ask.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“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, Tempted

“Individually there were things we lacked, but together we were perfect.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“Darkness reveals as much as it hides, sometimes.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“There are few times when we know with absolute certainty we are going to do something for the last time. Life has a way of moving in circles, bringing us back to places we didn’t expect and taking us away from those we do. There are too many times we don’t pay close enough attention, and moments are lost in our assumption we’ll have another chance.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard brings
more satisfaction in the end.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“Let him go. Let one of them go. Knowing it and doing it, two separate
accomplishments. Let one man go. The question had to be, which one?”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“Sometimes the picture someone else paints of us is a more accurate portrayal than a reflection. What we see in the mirror is always reversed. A portrait not only allows us to see our own faces, but how it looks to others.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“When you love someone, seeing them in pain can be harder than being in pain yourself.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“We discover the truth in moments of disarray.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“heavy with The Cure and Depeche Mode, groups with lush instrumentals and heavy-duty lyrics about love, lust and life.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“Most people who know they’ve fucked up manage to find a way to justify themselves.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“Sometimes the picture someone else paints of us is a more accurate portrayal than a reflection. What we see in the mirror is always reversed.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“Feeling pressured into doing something I didn’t want to do for people I didn’t want to please.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“The past doesn’t change no matter how much time you spend thinking about it. Good and bad all add up to the whole. Take away one piece, no matter how small, and the whole changes. Whether it’s optimism, pessimism or fatalism, I don’t spend my time wishing for the past to be different so the present would be different, too. I control my future with what I choose now. I’m the only one who does.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“I love you,” I told him. “And all of this, our life, is everything I wished to have but wasn’t sure I could keep. I never felt like that with Alex, James. I always knew that what we shared wouldn’t last. He never belonged to me. Not the way you do.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“I knew I’d sounded bitter, but I didn’t bend even when guilt threatened to throttle me with its bony fingers. “I hope it was worth it, Mom.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“But my mother-in-law didn’t admit to mistakes, a nifty little trait she’d handed down to her son.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“More smiling. Fierce. I was getting a headache. I smiled.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“I want to tell you that you’ll know love when it hits you, and it will all be great and you’ll find that one person who makes your heart sing, the end, happily ever after. I want to do that for you, I really do. But I’m just not that person. I’m sorry.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“The circular conversation wasn’t new. Instead of feeling annoyed, I felt only sad. This man, for better or worse, was my father.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“I turned only halfway, gave him half my attention. Half of myself. “Are you ever going to be happy again?”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“I got it together, of course. I always did. I pushed away what shamed me and made me unhappy, and I smoothed out the rest to make a pretty, perfect surface. It was getting harder and harder to do.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“This one says they’ll place your ‘little blessing in disguise’ with a local ‘Christ-oriented family.’ What about the non-Christ-oriented families? Don’t they deserve the right to adopt kids?”
― Megan Hart, Tempted

“I’d been a substitute for something they both wanted and neither could have.”
― Megan Hart, Tempted