The Only Survivors Quotes

“I believed fate was an accumulation of decisions, not all of them yours.”
― Megan miranda, The Only Survivors

“Everything, she realized in that stark moment of clarity, had always been out of her control.”
― Megan Miranda, The Only Survivors

“Who do you save in the moment, when you have the chance? The answer was simple, and obvious, and always, always the same: whoever you can.”
― Megan Miranda, The Only Survivors

“There was something to the word we, every time one of them said it. A door, held open. A welcome. Every time, I took it.”
― Megan Miranda, The Only Survivors

“risk was not a thing that could be calculated in math class or fully reconciled by history. That it was often tied to some element of loss. She had witnessed that dichotomy in her mother’s expression as she told the stories of her past, triumph mixed with regret. The Andrewses made their own fate,”
― Megan Miranda, The Only Survivors

“It’s natural to try to center yourself,” she continued. “But that story isn’t about you. We like to believe we could’ve changed it, if only we’d been there.”
― Megan Miranda, The Only Survivors

“The promise of adulthood, the freedom to make the decisions—no one had told her the weight of it.”
― Megan Miranda, The Only Survivors

“that risk was not a thing that could be calculated in math class or fully reconciled by history. That it was often tied to some element of loss.”
― Megan Miranda, The Only Survivors

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― Megan Miranda, The Only Survivors