Cross My Heart Quotes

“My time is already worthy, just by being mine, and I can use it to do the things I love: laughing with friends, reading good books, listening to Taylor Swift, finding ways to ease people’s burdens. And who knows what else I’ll discover about myself when I’m not worrying over a relationship or stressing about romantic prospects. Who knows what else I’ll become. Even if my worst fear comes to fruition, even if I’m alone in a hospital during my final moments, at least I’ll know that I actually lived. That I loved and cherished myself while I did.”
― Megan Collins, Cross My Heart

“It comes down to a simple truth: it’s easier, sometimes, to be miserable in love than it is to be alone.”
― Megan Collins, Cross My Heart

“I fell hard for forever, used it to forgive almost anything.”
― Megan Collins, Cross My Heart

“There's the truth, which is what literally happened. And then there's the Truth - what emotionally happened. So much of poetry exists in the capital T.”
― Megan Collins, Cross My Heart: A Novel

“All I can say is: the beginning was so blindingly beautiful, it kept me from seeing the end.”
― Megan Collins, Cross My Heart

“There’s the truth, which is what literally happened. And then there’s the Truth—what emotionally happened. So much of poetry exists in that capital T.”
― Megan Collins, Cross My Heart

“I know better than most the way dark thoughts intrude, the way a broken heart can break your brain a little, too.”
― Megan Collins, Cross My Heart

“And once, he wrote that Taylor Swift is the Sylvia Plath of our time, a sentence that had me swooning.”
― Megan Collins, Cross My Heart

“But better isn’t the same as right.”
― Megan Collins, Cross My Heart

“Her face was soft between my palms, but as we deepened the kiss, I felt the shift of her jawbone, reminding me that beneath that soft skin was a skull so easily crushed.”
― Megan Collins, Cross My Heart

“I was surprised how much I still loved it, even if there was a painful edge to that love, a jagged breath caught in my throat. But that’s true of all love, isn’t it? There’s always some part of it that hurts.”
― Megan Collins, Cross My Heart