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The Last House Guest QUOTES

The Last House Guest QUOTES

1 " Promises made without clarity of thought still counted. A careless yes and you were bound. "

― Megan Miranda , The Last House Guest

2 " But that was the thing about loving someone—it only counted when you knew their flaws and did it anyway. "

― Megan Miranda , The Last House Guest

3 " I’ve known enough of loss to accept that grief may lose its sharpness with time, but memory only tightens. Moments replay. "

― Megan Miranda , The Last House Guest

4 " But people must’ve realized what I too soon understood: that grief did not create anything that had not existed before. It only heightened what was already there. Removing the binds that once shielded me. "

― Megan Miranda , The Last House Guest

5 " We were invisible, as we were taught to be. "

― Megan Miranda , The Last House Guest

6 " the memory of my mother’s words in my ear as she worked, telling me to look again, to tell her what I saw, even though it always looked exactly the same to me. "

― Megan Miranda , The Last House Guest

7 " Show me a chip in the demeanor and watch me fall. I never met a flaw I didn’t love. The hidden insecurity, the brief uncertainty. The waver behind the arrogance. "

― Megan Miranda , The Last House Guest

8 " I was. In one way or another, I was never more myself than right then. Desperately, terrifyingly, unapologetically myself. And I’d just discovered the power of it, how it wreaked destruction, not only on myself but on others. "

― Megan Miranda , The Last House Guest

9 " I heard once that you can’t dream a face until you’ve seen it in real life. That the figures in dreams are either real people or, blurry and unformed, things you can’t recall when you wake. "

― Megan Miranda , The Last House Guest

10 " The Parker I once knew was unflappable, but loss can manifest in other ways. Signs of age, of illness, of pain. A tremor in the fingers, nervous system on overdrive. A wound slow to heal. "

― Megan Miranda , The Last House Guest

11 " Torn between two worlds—the one in front of her and the one in her head that she was continually trying to uncover. "

― Megan Miranda , The Last House Guest

12 " Maybe this was my downfall—always too trusting in the end; choosing someone else over the solitude. Yet again thinking people had anything but their own interests at heart. "

― Megan Miranda , The Last House Guest

13 " this fact—We locked the "

― Megan Miranda , The Last House Guest

14 " At night, from the inside,” I told him, “the only thing you can see is your own reflection. "

― Megan Miranda , The Last House Guest

15 " Ambition wasn’t just in the work. Ambition, I believed, was tinged with a sort of desperation, something closer to panic. Like a dormant switch deep inside that could be forced only by necessity. Something to push up against until, finally, you caught. "

― Megan Miranda , The Last House Guest

16 " Surrounded by the mountains and the ocean, you became more than you were elsewhere. "

― Megan Miranda , The Last House Guest

17 " There were pieces of others who gave everyone shape, of course there were. "

― Megan Miranda , The Last House Guest

18 " the idea that you didn’t have to apologize. Not for what you’d done and not for who you were. "

― Megan Miranda , The Last House Guest

19 " the thing about loving someone—it only counted when you knew their flaws and did it anyway. "

― Megan Miranda , The Last House Guest

20 " you had to take great risks for great rewards. That to change your life, to truly change it, you had to be willing to lose. "

― Megan Miranda , The Last House Guest