Megan Chance Quotes & Sayings

All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting. — Megan Chance

I thought I knew everything. There's the challenge fate loves best, isn't it? I was ripe for a fall and so ... the apple. — Megan Chance

I cannot explain how it begins, or why it happens, what strange alchemy puts such things in motion. — Megan Chance

The answers are what they are. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they aren't true. — Megan Chance

In the end, there's only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don't lie. — Megan Chance

I leaned my head back, and waited for the sunrise. — Megan Chance

Strange, don't you think, that nuns and monks make the most sensual food and drink? — Megan Chance

The material world is simply an expression of the mind; that's what so many fail to see. We're so dependent on what is before us that we discount our intuition. Yet if one dismisses instinct, how can one understand or believe in a world that exists beyond one's sight? — Megan Chance

Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable. — Megan Chance

Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve. — Megan Chance

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand. — Megan Chance

The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe. — Megan Chance

You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control. — Megan Chance

Yes, she was his angel. But can't you guess, my love? She was his demon too. — Megan Chance

Joseph and I arrived at Edward's — Megan Chance

Is it optimism or madness that keeps one forging ahead despite failure after failure? — Megan Chance

Imagine you come upon a house painted brown. What color would you say the house was?"
"Why brown, of course."
"But what if I came upon it from the other side, and found it to be white?"
"That would be absurd. Who would paint a house two colors?"
He ignored my question. "You say it's brown, and I say it's white. Who's right?"
"We're both right."
"Non," he said. "We're both wrong. The house isn't brown or white. It's both. You and I only see one side. But that doesn't mean the other side doesn't exist. To not see the whole is to not see the truth. — Megan Chance

In the end, for me, there was only this: desire and addiction and hunger, a craving that made the world look hard-edged and brutally lovely. — Megan Chance

It wasn't just her words, it was her way of putting them together, the voice that seemed to gain power with each one, so that my head had been filled with images so magically vibrant it was as if I had seen them with my own eyes. She changed the world into something fine. She made one believe. — Megan Chance

It seems all spirits need theatrics, eh? Even Christ himself requires incense and holy water. We're a skeptical people. We need convincing. — Megan Chance

Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now? — Megan Chance

Understand what part they played. Symmetry. And because I understood that, I understood that a single painting or composition or poem might change the future. Where its influence might end - if it ever did - was a mystery. I had spent lifetimes watching the effects of my choices, and so I knew that Joseph Hannigan was meant to be the very best of them. The world had put him into my hands; I could only guess at its design. But I knew he — Megan Chance

Answers? Ha, he would say that. More like riddles, mazes, labyrinths. If there's some power trying to show me the way, it should give better directions. — Megan Chance

The Bible was written by man to serve his own ends. Like society. Like the church. We use such things to control one another, but what right do we have to do so? — Megan Chance

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty. — Megan Chance

Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as we see them. — Megan Chance