Jennifer Megan Varnadore Quotes & Sayings

And if I erase you from my mind, it would be easy. It's loving you beyond a hope and a prayer, that is the hard part. It's not hard to do it. It's hard to stop. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Writing is so much more productive when it is set on fire, for then and only then can you feel the passion spewing forth from the writer's heart. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

You don't get a choice in who you love, because often when you realize that you're in love, it's far too late to choose. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

No one is perfect. Sometimes, it is the imperfections that make us more alive than those around us. It's the happiness of truly breathing and living in freedom of ourselves. Even though we may look broken to the world, there is always someone who sees us as we truly are, and helps us to create our whole being. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

They were alike, and yet they were totally opposite
in the way they viewed the world. He viewed it as it was. It
was a dark place, always holding itself into the shadows.
She saw the beauty that no one else could ever have seen in
the darkness. It was to be said that she both saved and
destroyed him. She was the essence of him and yet she,
beautiful sad eyed angel that she was, was also his
destruction all at the same time. He could be a downright
wretch of a man, yet she took it into herself, and never said
a word, but to love him. It was the love that broke him. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

I love when people quote me. It makes me feel that my words have meaning. People give words power. When they speak out for things they feel, we all become alive. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

I have seen conversations that I had three years ago, when I was young, in love, and naive. I've grown a lot since those days. I now know that love isn't just that abstract feeling, because there are so many other sides to it. Sometimes you learn that to truly love someone you have to just support them as a person, and step out of their view finder. Be their friend and nothing else. Sometimes you learn to walk away and find what you need. You learn you knew nothing and that's when you grow up and change your ways. There may be no fairy take endings, but that is okay, because love is much more real than that. So much less superficial. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

What makes us humans? We are not good or bad. We are yes, no, and maybe all at once. Machines are neither good or back either. It is the people using them who make the distinction. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

I'm nothing but my ambition to become more than the marionette others created me to be. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Sometimes there are fine lines between people who are considered "patriots" and those who are considered "terrorists". — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Patience is hardest when it comes to love, especially love that creates an almost obsessive passion inside yourself to love the other person beyond what it costs you. How do you wait for someone you loved to come back to you? There is always a chance that you will be waiting forever, and that they will never come, but if they do ... every ounce of waiting is worth the weight of all the diamonds in the world. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Those who gain Greatness, often hit many obstacles. To succeed, persist, even when others tell you you will fail. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

He became a dark paramour, her muse, and she knew that muses had a tendency to kill those they inspired. She could feel him seeping into her, like the chill. She knew she would never be rid of him now. She was his forever, and she didn't even know what he was thinking of. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

You're not going to be immediately good at anything you do. You wouldn't quit on the first day of your new job, so why quit on the first try at doing something else? — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Scientifically, Love is a chemical reaction in your brain toward someone else. Your pupils dilate, breathing catches, and your heart beats faster as your mind goes into overdrive. Spiritually, true love is your soul's recognition of its counterpart in another person. No reasoning, because there is none. We all know what love is. Most of us just don't know how to love. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Everyone runs away from something, but who are you running to? Who are you running with? Why are you running for? Why run at all? — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

I know that there will always be someone who won't get the stories, or who won't like them. You cannot please everyone, unfortunately. It won't stop me from writing. Nothing can do that, because it has always been my passion.
It's like the stories live inside of me, and they project onto the page through my typing and my pencil. I can see them play like movies on a screen, and to me, they are beautiful. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

You can see opposition and imposition or you can see an opportunity. As a part of the Slytherin House, I choose to see opportunity. If you've chosen to see opposition, and I seize your opportunity, I assure you that it is less selfless and more self-serving. In these situations you'll walk away thanking me, but I'll be all the richer for reaping the benefits of my choice, while you will walk away never knowing what you could have had. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Non carborundum et non servium. - I will not bow and I will not serve (Latin) — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

When love is thrown away over stupid reasons, the only thing left is shame and regret. Instead of letting stupid things rule your love, let your love over rule the stupid things. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

They say love makes everything complicated, but it doesn't, it makes everything simple. You and Me. That was everything, and it was pure. Purely simple love. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

It's sad when you realize that people you've loved (whether friends, family, or loved ones) are going down paths you know you can't take. It's especially sad when you realize that it's because you don't want to take it, because you two are too different. It's sad when people who used to energize you with their presence, now only drain you with their mere words. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

The minds of others are stranger depths to employ our hearts to than our own wonderland of cerebral cortex. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

It is exactly our sense of haste and impatience that impedes us from seeing the true beauty life has to offer. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Everyone has a temptation; a weakness that they would yield to. Mine is you. Not only you, but your love. For your love is unique. For you are the other half of my soul. I feel you, even when you are not there. It's like a shadow. You are my shadow. Your love follows me every step I tread. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Meet me where the interstate ends, and the road takes turns trying to figure out which way to go. If you take the right way don't leave me behind, because all I can remember is the persistence in your eyes. You won't come back home again. If you take the left way don't look too far ahead, and never look behind you, because I'll always be right here beside you. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Gotta love the memories you make with others. It impacts you as a person. You never know where life will throw you, but you always have that to look back on. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

When the world is at your back, and your heart is at your feet ... the best way to go on is to just "be". — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Just know the night won't last forever, and the daybreak is just around the corner. The rain only lasts so long, until it has to stop again. There won't always be sorrow. Tomorrow is another day for daylight. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Love is easy. It's being afraid that's hard. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

You are always someone's example. Someone is always trying to follow in your footsteps. What will you leave them that is behind you? — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Take it and make it extraordinary, because beautiful isn't always something noticeable, it's often what can be seen but isn't noticed. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Sometimes, when things fall apart, it's because you spent so much time being scared that it was too perfect and it slips through your fingers. When you try to hold love too tightly, it leaves you without warning. You have to revel in the ease of it, because even when the hard times come you can overtake them, and fear is just a crutch and the sibling of doubt. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

When you don't think you can feel is when you learn you can smile until it hurts, and love until you're too scared to say it, because you need someone who loves you enough to look you in the eyes and say, 'You're beautiful the way you are It'll be ok. You're worth something.' because sometimes you forget. It's easier to believe when they say it. If you believe, it means that they matter to you. You want to bare your soul to them. Give them everything it takes to let you fall, and pray to God that they are there to catch you. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Love is the beginning of an eternal hell of doubt, and is a destruction even in its divinity. Cravings of lovers are burned into frenzy, and love alone remains immortal in the ability to lift the soul, or cause it to fall into devastation. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

No matter where you go, or however long you're there, you can always come back home to me. Whether tears or smiles cloud your eyes, you can rest upon your knees. Whether you have found yourself, or lost your sense of purpose along the way, I'll be there to take you in. I won't give you away. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Why is it when you fall in love with someone (and especially when you are trying extremely hard not to do so), the world seems to conspire against you in order to cause that person to be the only thing on your mind? It doesn't matter what you're doing: reading, driving, walking down the road. You just look up and, BANG, there is their name or some form of it. Then you smile, and you think of them. That's when you realize there isn't any way to get out of this one alive and unscathed, because it's already a battle that you've lost, and the war is going to rage on forever after. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Opportunity comes to those who are willing to take it. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Knowledge is learning how to do something new, wisdom is being able to put your knowledge into use. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

When you think everything is someone else's fault, chances are that you're looking at the wrong side of the looking glass. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

New love can heal lost loves, but it cannot make you forget. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

One day love will be the death of me. Your love, in fact, specifically. You're the vice I can't control my lust for. You're the colour in my life that I seek for. However, you'd rather not fight, but walk away. Therefore, in the like of all tragedies, you will be the death of me. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

If I could hold your heart I would keep it safe. Even when I trip and fall, and even when I break down, I would hold your heart close to mine, so it doesn't see the same damage. When I bruise my knees and scrape my palms you'll never have to fear, and even if I cry, I promise, you won't need to shed a tear. Love is everlasting. Loyalty is intertwined with faith. As long as you want me I will be here, standing with my palms out, waiting with my heart plain in my eyes, and a smile on my face. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

We can only truly love, when we realized we have been loved all along, by the one person who gave their life for simply our forgiveness, and for us to truly live. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Desmonde
looked over to where Delilah had gone, his gaze focused on
it. He smiled wryly and said softly, You'd be surprised to know that I am a man whose heart could be stolen by a woman who loved beauty in darker things. A woman who loved chaos and disorder. A woman who loved poetry, and beautiful sonatas. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

No one will ever love you like I did, or as long. That's what I told you, but I lied. I love you more than I ever did before, and for far longer. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

[no matter] wherever you are, [here] I am content. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

When it is easier to do wrong, it is harder to do right, but best to not do nothing at all. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

If you do not like what someone says, stand up and challenge them by saying what you feel. Be the change that you want to see in the world around you. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

There are times God puts things in our lives that remind us of the past, so that we know ... not all is as lost as we thought it was. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Cheer up, love. Have faith it will get better, and if it don't, well darlin' that is what your knees are for. Pray pray pray. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

When it comes to love, I realize that I am masochistic. They might consider me crazy for loving you despite everything that we have been through. You may not be worth the pain, but if it's from you, I really don't mind the devastation. I don't want to ever let you go. I may deserve better than you, but you're just the same, aren't you? You are me. There is no difference. Tomorrow I will feel the same as I did the day before. You are the only one I could love this way, and that's not something I ever want to give up. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

In life there are good and bad situations. But when you are down in the valley looking up at the mountain, sometimes you realize that you can see the stars a little clearer. You realize what's truly important and you know exactly what must be done to keep it just like it is. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Knowledge is great, but what practical use is it if you can't put it into practice? — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Real people make mistakes, are haunted by doubts, take revenge, die before their time, love two people in different ways — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

My tongue is a scalding whiplash. I'm tired of hurting others with it, the way they have hurt me. I've always despised the practice, so once more I'll bite my words back, though the injustice served deserves each backlash of every one. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

For the one that loved, the nightmare, it was simple. It never had been, but was all in their mind. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Love is seeing someone for who they are, and for all the things that they don't know they can be. Sometimes it's neither seeing things as good or bad, but seeing them as aspects that create the being. If you cannot love someone for all of the things that create their personality, then you'll find it hard to love them at all. I can be everything or nothing, but I cannot love without you. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Success could be defined as the ability to go on persevering even when it seems that there are no possibilities left. Each failure is not truly a failure, just another possibility explored and found wanting. We never truly run out of possibilities for success, just imagination to find them. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

I don't want a man who stands in front of me, because all I see is his back. I don't want a man to stand behind me, because I'd have to dwell on the past just to see his face. I want a man that stands beside me. An equal that holds my hand through whatever mountains and oceans we may cross. Someone who I can trust. I just want your love. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Hold out what men have said. (Desmonde and Delilah backtracked) — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Discretion is a girl's best friend. Learn when to use it, and when to let it slip. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Cooking is like playing a violin. The bow is a tool used to play, as is the knives and other tools you use to prepare. (a chef's knife is even held in the same manner) Spices are the notes used in the score. The way the food is cooked and prepared is the rhythm and tempo. The ingredients are the violin themselves, ready to be played upon. The finished dish is the music played to its best melody. All of these things must be applied together at the right pace, manner, and time in order to create a flavourful rush of artwork and beauty. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

In books, often the bad guys have a story too, and sometimes it is just as tragic as the hero's. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

I feel we are becoming divergent upon the paths we are walking down. I feel we are becoming distant, as the way we see things becomes more pronounced. I feel I know you less, where once I knew you like I knew myself before. I fear that in the end, we will become no more. When that guillotine descends, friend will be friend no longer. As time ascends, we will move forward on different paths in life's Wonderland. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

The world will call you a failure. Listen well, then realize, they are wrong. After that, get up and fail better. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

If the thought of leaving a relationship makes you want to hang your head in shame, why ever would you want to walk out the door? You are obviously missing something. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Sometimes the hardest story to tell is your own — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Do not fear your failures. More importantly, do not fear your successes. For if you let fear cripple you from acting, then you will stay stagnant forever. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

It is not God who is too busy to hear us, it is we who are too busy to hear God. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

It's that moment when you know you're falling and the ground is there beneath you, and it hits you that you're going to hit the ground, and then suddenly you stop, and you look up and they are there looking at you, surprised that they did it too. They caught you, and you're not falling anymore. You're safe. Yeah ... being with you is like that. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

A war without a strategy cannot be won. Then it is merely a battle where more lives are lost than necessary. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Be strong. It is our adversity that leads us to our character. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Sometimes you just have to give yourself permission to feel how you feel until it passes. I think one of the problems we all have is thinking that feeling sad is wrong. No. It's okay to feel sad. It's okay to feel sad for as long as you need to.
Just don't get lost in there, and forget you are more than your sorrow. You are so much more beautiful and strange than the struggles that you've been through. You are far stronger the moment you realize that. Not many people will understand that strength isn't feeling nothing, it's feeling everything and continuing to move forward despite it. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

The art of chess is akin to the art of war itself; full of strategy and cunning, yet clever placements. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

She's a russian roulette queen, gambling in love with her heart and life on the line — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

I admire someone who in the literal sense can say, 'If it is broken, I can fix it. If it's lost I can find it. IF you fall, I can catch you.' because if you can say it in the literal sense, you can mean it in the figurative sense. The littlest things can change the world. A smile can save someone's life, and a hand freely given when you have nothing to give other than yourself, can mean the world to someone else — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Why were we born different? Why do we see the world how it actually is? Because we were meant to change the world, but not live in it. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Sometimes the beauty of something is created by time and experiences, and those things are often more precious to those who look hard enough, and value the burnishings. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

The World will give you hopeless vanity, but what will you give the World? — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

I fail too much to be good as a real person, being anonymous makes me less real. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

You never have a guarantee of tomorrow. Everyone's thread is held taut, just waiting for that last scissor cut to sever at any given moment. Live your life in the way you should live it, and look at your troubles as tests of faith. They build your character, like gold being tried by the fire; getting rid of all its faults. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

What better medicine is there than a cat? — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Inspiration should be in direct correlation to the way you live. It shouldn't be something you strive to become. It should be the reaction to the journey you took to get there. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Delilah, pretend that it doesn't bother you. Move on
with your life, as if nothing ever happened. Nothing moves
a man, more than a woman who acts as if he didn't mean a
thing to her when he left. It bothers them, and they often
try to make sense of it. Meanwhile, you're putting
everything you have into yourself, and well, sometimes you
just don't know why things happen until later. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

I wish I could protect you from the world. It's a cold, dark place. It has very little light, where it used to abound in it, but alas, I am one lone candle. I cannot speak for the world. Just for what I've seen and felt. Being in the world means you could very well realize how lost you are. You find out, you cannot find yourself all alone. However, as long as a light shines, all hope is not lost. One day we'll all know for certain which paths are best traveled, and which were left narrow. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

He placed me on a pedestal, and wondered why his Queen was only a mere doll in the looking glass. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Love can both ruin and save one. It is our deepest emotions that lay root to our most beautiful words. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

To become the love of a poet is to become both a muse and an immortal all at the same time. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

All of the monsters in my head were created by people who thought they could make me a porcelain doll marionette of their own design. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

My mama taught me the most important lesson of all: "Sometimes you don't know why things happen until later." She still gets me through the dark days even to this day, because of that one day we sat in the grass, with my heart broken to smithereens, and she told me that one simple phrase that changed my life. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

You should find what sets you on fire, what you are passionate about, and then you should do that. No matter the risk. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore

Love can destroy or create all things, depending on whose hands wield the emotion, and whose heart gets in the way. I regret nothing I've felt in the past, for it got me to where I am now, nor do I regret what I feel now. I regret the devastation that comes with the passage of time, but I do not regret you. Nor will I ever. — Jennifer Megan Varnadore