“She'd smelled of confidence and lilies. She was my age, and yet she had what I did not - a lack of… — Megan Chance Confidence Copy Share Image
In the end, there's only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don't lie. — Megan Chance Believe Copy Share Image
Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand. — Megan Chance Calling Copy Share Image
“It is optimism or madness that keeps one forging ahead despite failure after failure?” — Megan Chance Failure Copy Share Image
With The Nightingale, I had been kicking the idea around for years. I was frightened to write it because on the surface… — Megan Chance Different Copy Share Image
“Then I saw it. Little pins of light that grew larger as I watched, a city that seemed to bloom from the… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“There are no boring stories. Only a failure to truly listen.” — Megan Chance Failure Copy Share Image
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 Forget 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
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
Of course, there are hundreds of novels and authors that have influenced me. But to choose three, they are: Stephen King/The Stand… — Megan Chance Book Copy Share Image
It felt like an oversight to me, something that needed to be corrected. They [women who hid Jewish children] deserved to be… — Megan Chance Children Copy Share Image
“Imagine you come upon a house painted brown. What color would you say the house was?" "Why brown, of course." "But what… — Megan Chance Right and wrong Copy Share Image
Thematically, we're both [with Kristin Hannah ] interested in women's experiences and women's stories, and until now, you've mostly dealt with how… — Megan Chance Feels 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
I do not often follow my characters off on tangents or change my story on a whim. I have an outline which… — Megan Chance Character Copy Share Image
“understand what part they played. Symmetry. And because I understood that, I understood that a single painting or composition or poem might… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
I see the emphasis on a lot of ideas and I know that's directed at me. [Megan Chance] come up with an… — Megan Chance Chance Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t just her words, it was her way of putting them together, the voice that seemed to gain power with each… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“The Bible was written by man to serve his own ends. Like society. Like the church. We use such things to control… — Megan Chance Bible Copy Share Image
“Any man can be led by desire, Soph. But desire isn't love. Don't make the mistake of thinking it is.” — Megan Chance Desire Copy Share Image
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