58 Quotes by Megan Miranda

Time isn't running out. It's not even real," he said, and I knew I had lost him--he was lost, circling in his own mind. "It's just a measure of distance we made up to understand things. Like an inch. Or a mile." He moved his hands as he spoke, to accentuate the point. "That clock," he said, pointing behind him. "It's not measuring time. It's creating it. You see the difference?

I kept myself from smiling at the running joke, because this was the dangerous part. Didn't matter that there was a girl in his car or that he was heading out on a date this very second. Because every time I came back, this was what happened. Didn't matter that I'd leave again or that he wouldn't. That we never talked about the past or the future. That he'd give up something else for me and I'd pretend not to notice.

It is quite true what philosophy says; that life must be understood backwards.

And I wonder if people do this all the time: fall for people because of their ability to pick getaway cars; or fall for people because of the way they look when they think nobody is watching; or fall for people because of the things they say, or the way they look at them, or the things they give up, or the things they cannot do.-Alina Chase (pg 262)

My soul was not meant to be in a cage. Not then, and not now.-Alina Chase

..There were thirty-two guards on the island, and I escaped.

I weigh my words before I say them. They’re one thing I do have control over. And so I am purposeful with them. Deliberate. I decide what to give and what to hide. I watch for reactions. I study their impact.

All things happen in an instant. Everything could change in a moment.

The danger is everywhere. It’s everyone. It’s the parts we keep hidden, and the darkness inside, fighting to get out. The only thing I did was take people down with me. They tied themselves to my anchor, and we fell.