Tear You Apart Quotes

“The word love has always tasted like the scent of fresh ink and soft paper to me. Like a newly written poem.”
― Megan Hart, Tear You Apart

“Every day," I tell him, "you will miss me either a little less or a little more. Until one day you will wake up and realize you don't miss me at all, or you will find yourself incapable of living without me.”
― Megan Hart, Tear You Apart

“Sometimes you say things because they make you feel better. Sometimes you say that because it makes me feel better. “I love you” stays locked behind my teeth because there is no way saying it aloud will make you feel anything but worse. I don’t say it, because when you love someone, really love them, you don’t want anything you do to ever hurt them.”
― Megan Hart, Tear You Apart

“This is the truth. I have been in love. I have been in lust. I’ve made good choices and bad ones, I have been smart and I’ve been stupid. But I have never in my life felt the way I do now, here, with Will.”
― Megan Hart, Tear You Apart

“Jealousy smells like the water in the bottom of a flower vase after the flowers have died.”
― Megan Hart, Tear You Apart

“...the kindest thing you can do for someone you love is to never tell them how much they have broken your heart.”
― Megan Hart, Tear You Apart

“Love is always real, even when it doesn’t last.”
― Megan Hart, Tear You Apart

“We look at each other without saying anything, both of us smiling like idiots. I heart is so full I can’t believe it can possibly still beat without bursting right in front of me. My desire for him is so fierce I’m afraid to stand, because I know my knees will be too weak to hold me up, but there’s more than that. This great and bursting thing inside me is love.”
― Megan Hart, Tear You Apart

“I’m in love with him, & I think I’ve known that for a long time, but now I can’t stop myself from admitting it. I love the way he dances for me, trying to make me laugh, not caring if he looks a little like a fool. He is adorable and charming, and the breath leaves my lungs and my heart forgets to beat, moment after moment.
I love him.
I love him.
I love him.”
― Megan Hart, Tear You Apart

“The world won’t wait for you to change, not ever. You either take a chance or you stay in one place while everything else goes on.”
― Megan Hart, Tear You Apart

“The well of my heart is a very deep place,
and at the bottom, it's dark.
He was my ocean, and I didn't know
if I would drown until I learned
how well I could swim.”
― Megan Hart, Tear You Apart

“I murmur something that sounds like “goodbye” but tastes like “hello.”
― Megan Hart, Tear You Apart

“Some people live their entire life and never once feel how I felt every time he looked at me. So yes, this hurts. And yes, I feel as if I might die. But I won’t. And somehow, I find a way to let it all go...just let it go. No regrets. No grief. It will always hurt a little, down deep in that secret place, but it’s become a pain I can handle. Besides, if it didn’t always hurt, just a little, it wouldn’t mean as much.”
― Megan Hart, Tear You Apart

“That life.
This life.
It looks as if you can have both. I mean, they're both right there, one on top of the other, and it looks as if they'll blend.
But they never will.
So, you take this thing.
You take this thing you want,
and you put it in a box
and you close the lid.
You can let your fingers trace the cracks, the places where the light gets in, the dark gets out, but the lid stays on. You don't look inside. You don't look at this thing you want so much, because you can. Not. Have. It.
So you there's this box, you know, with the thing inside, and you could throw it away or shoot it into space; you could set it on fire and watch it burn to ashes, but really, none of that would make a difference, because you cannot destroy what you want. It only makes you want it more.
So.
You take this thing you want
and you put it in a box
and you close the lid.
And you hold the box close to your heart, which is where it wants to go, and you pretend it doesn't kill you every time you feel yourself breathe.”
― Megan Hart, Tear You Apart

“What if I could be happy with Will? Really happy. Not settling. What if I have waited my whole life to find this person who fits me like the missing piece of my puzzle? What if my entire life has led to this point, not to teach me a lesson about appreciating what I have, but to help me let it all go?”
― Megan Hart, Tear You Apart

“How are we going to say goodbye?” Will asks in a sleepfurry voice.
He means now. I mean forever. “I don’t want to.”
His sleepy smile slaughters me. If I was standing, it would have sent me to my knees.”
― Megan Hart, Tear You Apart

“I hold on to him longer than is necessary, but then I let him go. Of course I let him go; there’s no other choice. He has a life, and so do I. No matter what I want, the sun has come up and the world will not fade away.”
― Megan Hart, Tear You Apart

“We can’t stop staring at each other. Saying nothing, nothing to say. I trace the curve of his jaw and throat, the sweet spot below his ear, with only my eyes, because he’s too faraway to touch. We stare and we stare and I can’t stop myself from smiling, because he’s smiling, too. We don’t have to speak to have this conversation; in fact, the only way to have it is by not using words.”
― Megan Hart, Tear You Apart

“Naveen: Oh, come on. Throw a guy a bone.
Elisabeth: Are you a dog?
Naveen: Are you a bitch?
That was how we became friends.”
― Megan Hart, Tear You Apart

“He wants to pretend this is all accidental, but for me it isn't a game. I haven't simply let it happen. I'm falling because I jumped, and not because I tripped.”
― Megan Hart, Tear You Apart

“Will cries out, low, a murmur of blue and green and gold. The syllables of my name float between us. I’ve never seen my name that way, in those colors, not from any other voice.”
― Megan Hart, Tear You Apart

“Love, when it goes, can sometimes burn to ash.
And sometimes it can leave nothing.”
― Megan Hart, Tear You Apart

“Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It’s everything in between we live for. —Ann Patchett, from the essay The Sense of an Ending”
― Megan Hart, Tear You Apart

“How could I have lived my entire life without knowing this man? His eyes are gray and green, and I smooth my fingertips over the arches of his brows. I touch the sleekness of the hair that falls in front of his ears.”
― Megan Hart, Tear You Apart

“That life and this. This life. That life. The one beneath is drawn in solid lines and bold strokes; it is a picture drawn in permanence with ink. It’s a tattoo. Indelible. The one on top of it is sketched on vellum in soft brushes of charcoal, easily smudged. It covers the one beneath, but can’t hide it. That life. This life. It looks as if you can have both. I mean, they’re both right there, one on top of the other, and it looks as if they’ll blend. But they never will. So, you take this thing. You take this thing you want, and you put it in a box and you close the lid. You can let your fingers trace the cracks, the places where the light gets in, the dark gets out, but the lid stays on. You don’t look inside. You don’t look at this thing you want so much, because you can. Not. Have. It. So there’s this box, you know, with the thing inside, and you could throw it away or bury it or shoot it into space; you could set it on fire and watch it burn to ashes, but really, none of that would make a difference, because you cannot destroy what you want. It only makes you want it more. So. You take this thing you want and you put it in a box and you close the lid. And you hold the box close to your heart, which is where it wants to go, and you pretend it doesn’t kill you every time you feel yourself breathe.”
― Megan Hart, Tear You Apart