Megan Duke Quotes

It's okay to be happy.

— Megan Duke

“I'm going to turn my life around. Make a complete three sixty."
"Don't you mean one eighty?" he corrected. "If you do that, you'll end up right back where you started."
"Maybe. But at least I'll have a chance of coming out of it a different person - a better version of me.”

— Megan Duke

“We as humans are the patterns of life. We are the roads we travel. Our lives make up the insignificance of a moment of the importance of a second. The choices we make are everything. I realize that, now that everything has changed and I'm a different person.”

— Megan Duke

“She might have been there for you in the aftermath, but I was there when everything came crashing down.”

— Megan Duke

“I want to tell you that I love you," he said. "But I'm afraid you won't remember it tomorrow."
"There's no way I would forget that.”

— Megan Duke

“Why?" Owen whispered. "Because it might be true? I'm tired of pretending like my heart isn't bleeding inside my chest because I want to be with you so badly. I don't want to fight it anymore. I want to be happy.”

— Megan Duke

“It's sad that bad things have to happen in order for us to stop and look around.”

— Megan Duke

“We both knew the place we were at and what that meant. We both felt the regret and the loss. We both knew that without me, none of it would have been possible. Without me, everything would be different. Without me, we wouldn't have been there ... lying in that bed in the first place.”

— Megan Duke

“But you're so much stronger than he was. He wasn't able to get up after being knocked down. You're different. I've never even seen you fall. - Jade, Small Circles”

— Megan Duke

“Paxton choked on the tears that were gushing uncontrollably down his face. "This feels ... a lot like falling," he let out through his gasps for air.
Jade pulled Paxton's trembling frame against hers. His hoodie was warm from his body heat and it smelt like cigarette smoke and deodorant. "No," she corrected him. "This is just ... slipping gracefully.”

— Megan Duke

“Larson had been putting up a front like he wasn't listening, but hearing that last statement from Owen made him speak up. "It's not about that," he asserted.
"It has to be," Owen disagreed. "How else am I supposed to define myself?"
"Why do you have to have a definition? A label isn't gonna make you feel any better about yourself or this situation. Stop trying to put yourself in one group or the other. It doesn't matter."
"It matters to me!" Owen challenged. "My whole world has been flipped upside down thanks to you! Am I just supposed to sit back and accept that?"
Larson was beginning to boil over with repugnance. "Yes! Because that's what happens!" He was trying as hard a he could not to scream. "Things change and sometimes there's nothing we can do about it. Life sucks. Deal with it! That's what I'm doing. I'm not doing it in the best way, but I'm doing it. I'm dealing with that fact that you left me.”

— Megan Duke

“Everything I ever lost, I gained back with you.”

— Megan Duke

“I wanted moments like this to last forever. If it couldn't, I wanted to play it on repeat so I wouldn't forget the details of every second.”

— Megan Duke

Every Mind Breaker I met was a true person inside and out. My name is Hayden Laevary, and these are their stories ... as well as mine.

— Megan Duke

I knew at that point I was more than capable of loving Jack - I was meant to.

— Megan Duke

“Mending a broken heart isn't easy. It's messy and complicated, but when it's finished, it's stronger than ever.”

— Megan Duke

What is love but an undiscovered disease?

— Megan Duke

We're just lines and angles.

— Megan Duke

“I made a birdhouse," he said confidently. "And I painted it to look like Hogwarts.”

— Megan Duke

I think I knew from the first moment I met her, she would be the one to replace me. I didn't think it would happen that fast, but it did.

— Megan Duke

“Congratulations," she said. "You win.”

— Megan Duke

“If there were two things Silas McFuller knew about the world, it was that life is not always fair, but everything happens for a reason.”

— Megan Duke

“He was protecting me with just the tips of his fingers, like five miniature copies of his heart touching my skin.”

— Megan Duke

“If there was a temperature at which drama boiled, they were all sitting in hot water.”

— Megan Duke

“Thanks for our moment.”

— Megan Duke

“If you wanted candles and romantic music, then you wouldn't have chosen me."
"Maybe I didn't choose," she dared. "Maybe it just happened.”

— Megan Duke

“You make me feel like I'm drowning.”

— Megan Duke

“Happiness comes in many forms. Whether through a passion for something or someone, it makes no difference. The results are the same: you live.”

— Megan Duke