Megan Chance Citas

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

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  Calling, Easier, Lunacy

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

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  Corazón, Pensamiento, Gente

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• 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.

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  Believe, Eye, Sight

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• I know I'm not normal in this, but [ Severus ] Snape is absolutely my favorite character in the Harry Potter books. He is completely mortal - good, bad, strong, weak, motivated by hatred, motivated by love. A gorgeous, compelling, complex character who definitely earns a spot at my table.

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  Strong, Book, Character

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• All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting.

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  Interesting, Risk

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• 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?

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  Believe, Sight, Expression

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• 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.

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  Understanding, Addresses, Logic

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• I have to admit that WWII France was not at all on my radar for Kristin Hannah.

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  France, Wwii, Radar

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

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  Lying, Believe, Body

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• The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe.

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  Creer

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

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  Patience, Men, Generosity

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• I simply couldn't walk away from [ The Nightingale].

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  Walks, Nightingales

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

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  Mean, Answers

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• 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.

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  Running, Feelings, Madness

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• 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.

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  Trying, Answers, World

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• To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times; the real surprise is that I finished the book at all.

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  Real, Libro, Personaje

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• [ The Nightingale ]ended up being a huge undertaking - a daunting amount of research on a subject that many people know intimately, a country I had not yet been to when I first started planning the book, an entire war.

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  Country, War, Book

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• In the end, the best part of the whole book [The Nightingale ] to me was the research, reading about the courageous, ordinary French women who put their lives on the line to save others. It was really inspirational.

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  Libro, Lectura, Ordinario

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• I am one of those authors who believes (perhaps foolishly) that she is in complete control of the story.

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  Believe, Stories

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• I do not often follow my characters off on tangents or change my story on a whim. I have an outline which I follow quite sternly...for a good long while. Then it turns out in some way to be insurmountably wrong and I am forced to re-think every component. Usually at this point I throw hundreds of pages away.

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  Character, Thinking, Long

  "Kristin Hannah and Megan Chance on 'The Nightingale'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. January 28, 2015.

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• La historia suele ser mi especialidad.

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  Histórico

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• Sometimes a story grabs hold of you and won't let go.

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  Letting Go, Stories, Sometimes

  "Kristin Hannah and Megan Chance on 'The Nightingale'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. January 28, 2015.

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• With The Nightingale, I had been kicking the idea around for years. I was frightened to write it because on the surface it seems so different for me.

  Megan Chance

  Writing, Years, Ideas

  "Kristin Hannah and Megan Chance on 'The Nightingale'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. January 28, 2015.

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• Honestly, I really didn't want to take on World War II France, but when I came across the story of a nineteen-year-old Belgian woman who created an escape route out of Nazi-Occupied France, I was hooked.

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  War, Years, Want

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• Había leído muchos libros sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial, pero no sabía que los aviadores derribados habían caminado por las cumbres heladas de los Pirineos con zapatos que no les servían y ropa que no abrigaba lo suficiente, mientras las patrullas alemanas y españolas los buscaban.

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  War, Book, Shoes

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