“Yes, she was his angel. But can’t you guess, my love? She was his demon too.” — Megan Chance Love Copy Share Image
I love the idea of ordinary women making extraordinary sacrifices. — Megan Chance Extraordinary Copy Share Image
“Some memories fade to tender nostalgia, and some fade altogether,” — Megan Chance Memories Copy Share Image
“They don’t actually believe in anything, you understand, so much as they have the habit of believing.” — Megan Chance Faith Copy Share Image
“Omnia Mundi Fumus et Umbra All in the World is Smoke and Shadow –Latin motto” — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
The women of the French Resistance astounded me. Isabelle and Vianne [from The Nightingale] are my homage to those brave and forgotten… — Megan Chance Astounded Copy Share Image
I love women being the heroes of the piece. There is just something so dramatic and important about this story [The Nightingale ]. — Megan Chance Dramatic Copy Share Image
Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone,… — Megan Chance Believe Copy Share Image
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… — Megan Chance Addresses Copy Share Image
“The two of you made something so beautiful it changed the way I saw it. I’ll never think of those places the… — Megan Chance Beautiful Copy Share Image
Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better… — Megan Chance Accepting Copy Share Image
“There are no white knights, Soph. Not like in your stories. You have to see people for what they are, not what… — Megan Chance Knights Copy Share Image
I know I'm not normal in this, but [ Severus ] Snape is absolutely my favorite character in the Harry Potter books.… — Megan Chance Book Copy Share Image
I am more than happy to invite my five favorite fictional characters. Let's see. First on my list is Sam Gamgee from… — Megan Chance Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Few men ever wonder such things. They are the center of the world, after all. But women are not so different in… — Megan Chance Feminism Copy Share Image
[I am more than happy to invite my five favorite fictional characters.]Roland Deschain from Stephen King's Dark Tower series. There's a whole… — Megan Chance Answers Copy Share Image
I'd extend an invitation to Lisbeth Salander. She would definitely shake the party up and get it started. I think she is… — Megan Chance Character Copy Share Image
There were others, women with stories that were told in a quieter voice: women who hid Jewish children in their homes, putting… — Megan Chance Book Copy Share Image
Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand. — Megan Chance Calling Copy Share Image
I have to admit that WWII France was not at all on my radar for Kristin Hannah. — Megan Chance France Copy Share Image
“Strange, don’t you think, that nuns and monks make the most sensual food and drink?” — Megan Chance Food and drink Copy Share Image
I am one of those authors who believes (perhaps foolishly) that she is in complete control of the story. — Megan Chance Believe Copy Share Image
“craving that made the world look hard-edged and brutally lovely. “Would you have” — Megan Chance Brutally Copy Share Image
I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all. — Megan Chance Books Copy Share Image
“Truth has a way of speaking, of sneaking in beyond fear or dread.” — Megan Chance Fear Copy Share Image
“If there was a family in the world to which I did not belong, it was my own.” — Megan Chance Belong Copy Share Image
My next guest [ for party with five favorite fictional characters] would be Scarlett from Gone With The Wind. I mean, come… — Megan Chance Character Copy Share Image
[ The Nightingale ]ended up being a huge undertaking - a daunting amount of research on a subject that many people know… — Megan Chance Amount Copy Share Image
The woman who led [downed airmen] was named Andrée De Jongh and her story - one of heroism and peril and astounding… — Megan Chance Airmen Copy Share Image
To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times;… — Megan Chance Being honest Copy Share Image
In the end, the best part of the whole book [The Nightingale ] to me was the research, reading about the courageous,… — Megan Chance Book Copy Share Image
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… — Megan Chance Belgians Copy Share Image
I think The Nightingale is my best, most mature, most moving novel, but maybe that's just because I love these characters. I… — Megan Chance Character Copy Share Image
![“I simply couldn't walk away from [ The Nightingale].” quote by Megan Chance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8a3/megan-chance-8853_nightingales_i-simply-couldn-t-walk-away-from-the-nig_177219.jpg)
![“The women of the French Resistance astounded me. Isabelle and Vianne [from The Nightingale] are my homage to those brave and forgotten women.” quote by Megan Chance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/60e/megan-chance-8853_astounded_the-women-of-the-french-resistance-astou_436710.jpg)
![“I love women being the heroes of the piece. There is just something so dramatic and important about this story [The Nightingale ].” quote by Megan Chance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/556/megan-chance-8853_dramatic_i-love-women-being-the-heroes-of-the-pie_323810.jpg)
![“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.” quote by Megan Chance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a1d/megan-chance-8853_book_i-know-i-m-not-normal-in-this-but-severu_332070.jpg)
![“[I am more than happy to invite my five favorite fictional characters.]Roland Deschain from Stephen King's Dark Tower series. There's a whole world about Roland left to know. I've got questions. He'd have answers. So pour him a glass of wine.” quote by Megan Chance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7ad/megan-chance-8853_answers_i-am-more-than-happy-to-invite-my-five-f_150541.jpg)
![“My next guest [ for party with five favorite fictional characters] would be Scarlett from Gone With The Wind. I mean, come on, I have to know if she ever got Rhett back.” quote by Megan Chance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/25a/megan-chance-8853_character_my-next-guest-for-party-with-five-favori_1945842.jpg)
![“[ 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.” quote by Megan Chance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c14/megan-chance-8853_amount_the-nightingale-ended-up-being-a-huge-un_1019816.jpg)
![“The woman who led [downed airmen] was named Andrée De Jongh and her story - one of heroism and peril and astounding courage - became the inspiration for my novel.” quote by Megan Chance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/655/megan-chance-8853_airmen_the-woman-who-led-downed-airmen-was-name_1120273.jpg)
![“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.” quote by Megan Chance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e98/megan-chance-8853_being-honest_to-be-honest-i-wrote-so-many-drafts-of-t_1296046.jpg)
![“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.” quote by Megan Chance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a83/megan-chance-8853_book_in-the-end-the-best-part-of-the-whole-bo_2704210.jpg)
