58 Quotes by Megan Miranda

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    Missing girls had a way of working their way into someone’s head. You couldn’t help but see them in everyone – how temporary and fragile we might be.

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    Do they not realize they have made me in her likeness? I think of what June is trying to lead me toward. What do they think I will do with it when I have no other options?

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    Because the thing about standing here in the middle of the mountains with the rain coming down, in a house your grandfather built, is that it’s too easy to notice how insignificant you are. How quickly you might go from something to nothing.

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    The past, boxed up and stacked out of sight. But never too far away.

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    There’s no pattern to falling in love. At least, nothing I can understand. Not something I could see beforehand. Not something I can decipher after, either. Trust can be earned, piece by piece, like links of a chain. But love is more like faith, or belief: it’s a leap. It’s hurtling over the edge of the cliff and trusting you will not drown.

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    But friends to call for the deep things, the things that live in the dark spaces of our hearts? Those people didn’t exist for me any longer.

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    The darkness lives in everyone. She knew this better than anyone. Everyone had two faces, and she looked deep into us until she found it.

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    Maybe hell was just an absence of something. A void waiting to be filled.

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    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.

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