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A Splendid Ruin QUOTES

A Splendid Ruin QUOTES

1 " I’ve invented it, because there is no other word that celebrates the genius that is me. "

― Megan Chance , A Splendid Ruin

2 " Now here was beautiful, vibrant Goldie, saying that we would be the best of friends, and I was foolish enough to think it was what I wanted above all else. "

― Megan Chance , A Splendid Ruin

3 " I looked again at the library, my vision made real, beautiful yes, but a terrible betrayal. I would never be able to come here again, I knew. Goldie and my uncle had been cruel and avaricious, but their greed was not so personal as Ellis’s. Not so intimate. And yet, I knew also, in a way I had not known before, that its very intimacy made me stronger. I would not forgive him this, "

― Megan Chance , A Splendid Ruin

4 " The earth had set me free. The city was at my feet. I forgot where I was and that I had not touched a pencil in months. "

― Megan Chance , A Splendid Ruin

5 " There are many opportunities in a life. It’s not a failing to take whatever comes one’s way. In fact, I rather think it a strength. "

― Megan Chance , A Splendid Ruin

6 " The echo of my thought startled me. The weight of the future it contained frightened me more than anything else "

― Megan Chance , A Splendid Ruin

7 " One day you’ll want for nothing. You don’t belong here. You are meant for something finer than this. "

― Megan Chance , A Splendid Ruin

8 " My ever-present loneliness only grew worse. How could I complain? I’d come from nothing. I was the luckiest girl in the world. I had a family now. How ungrateful I was, to want anything more. "

― Megan Chance , A Splendid Ruin

9 " we despise most those who know us at our worst. It’s true. It’s so true. "

― Megan Chance , A Splendid Ruin

10 " All facade, all vacant, enjoyment without sustenance, celebration without boundaries or purpose. "

― Megan Chance , A Splendid Ruin

11 " Mama had never said anything of her family having such wealth, not once, in all our years of suffering. But then again, neither had she told me she had a sister. I should not be surprised. She’d kept so many secrets. But this . . . Why had she said nothing of this? "

― Megan Chance , A Splendid Ruin

12 " Don’t you wonder what happened, Goldie?” “What happened to what?” “To our family. Aunt Florence just told me that she and my mother were close. Like twins, she said. "

― Megan Chance , A Splendid Ruin

13 " You must tell me the truth. I’ve seen you sneak out. I know it must be where you go. "

― Megan Chance , A Splendid Ruin

14 " Again, that sense of being stifled, cloistered, removed from the world and locked away. "

― Megan Chance , A Splendid Ruin

15 " proper city growth isn’t what Older wants to talk about. All he cares about are his graft hobgoblins. "

― Megan Chance , A Splendid Ruin

16 " Then, at last, I had what I didn’t know I was looking for: the antidote to my loneliness, which shriveled and withered away. Until that moment, I hadn’t realized how much of me it had been. "

― Megan Chance , A Splendid Ruin

17 " Flossie’s moments of clear-mindedness are few and far between, with or without the laudanum. Your aunt is a hysteric, unfortunately. "

― Megan Chance , A Splendid Ruin

18 " we despise most those who know us at our worst. "

― Megan Chance , A Splendid Ruin

19 " Remember who you are, May.” The balm of my mother’s oft-repeated words and the softness of memory banished my unease. I flew down the stairs to the party. "

― Megan Chance , A Splendid Ruin

20 " Heat and wind and poisonous smoke. "

― Megan Chance , A Splendid Ruin