23 Quotes & Sayings By Jennifer Megan Varnadore

A true storyteller and award-winning author, Jennifer Megan Varnadore has been featured in publications such as the New York Times, USA Today, and on MSNBC. Her memoir, A Cup of Tea with Jennifer Megan Varnadore: A Story of Love and Healing, is a collection of stories about love and heartbreak. She is the coauthor of The Other Woman: The Other Side of the Story and The Other Woman: The Untold Story of the Men Who Stole My Daughter's Life Away. She has also written three novels: The Sweetest Thing, I'll Do Anything for Love: Serving and Performing at the Super Bowl, and A Cup of Tea with Jennifer Megan Varnadore: A Story of Love and Healing.

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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
I love when people quote me. It makes me feel...
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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
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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
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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
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Be strong. It is our adversity that leads us to our character. Jennifer Megan Varnadore
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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
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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
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If you're an artist, always keep at it, there will be someone out there who sees the universe and soul in what you've created. Maybe they can't afford it, but it calls them like the siren in a sea, and they've saved for months and scraped, thinking all the time about how one piece you made has moved them. You can change a person's moment with your work, don't forget that. If you're an author, someone out there has read your work. They've laughed with your characters. They've cried with them. They've escaped into your fantasy or memories, and they've been changed by you. Nothing they do afterward will be the same. You will forever make them different and who they will become. Please don't forget that. If you're a singer or musician, you inspire others. People sing when they feel great emotion. If you're one of those who bursts into song at a moment's notice, imagine what that can do to brighten someone else's day. People are listening. They see you, who you really are. They are feeling the magic of those moments with you. You never know who's life you can change. You never know who is listening. Never forget that. It doesn't matter what kind of magic you create, don't ever stop. There is beauty, pain, and so many other things that depend on you to continue. Never stop. Let the world see your magic. Perform your craft with all of the fibers of your being. Shine with your light. Edge with your darkness. Do what you must, but never stop. Your creations are a gift to the world, so give with all your might. You never know who might need it. Jennifer Megan Varnadore
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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
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Those who gain Greatness, often hit many obstacles. To succeed, persist, even when others tell you you will fail. Jennifer Megan Varnadore
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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
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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
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Opportunity comes to those who are willing to take it. Jennifer Megan Varnadore
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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
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To become the love of a poet is to become both a muse and an immortal all at the same time. Jennifer Megan Varnadore
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The fighting was horrendous. Bloodshed and death lie everywhere around us. It was not exciting, Vindhya. It is fearsome, and we were all scared out of our wits. There is no honour in battle but to protect you, my love. We have won the gates of Grilsom and lost the fortress of Loare..but we’ve gained allies from the Knights of Scrivehrim, and enemies of the dark elves of Scryire. There is no winning in War, my sweet..only loss. People die onevery side. How can any battle be won with such consequence and loss? I do not understand war. It’s so unfair, so..unjustified. We take innocent lives, yet we gain medals of highest honour and divine, sacred blessings. What is the sense of it? And even much less do I understand Andsar’s concept of celibacy in soldiers, and that they choose to stay alone their entire lives. I might understand, were the reasoning that we would leave no one behind to suffer..but there is no reason for it. They tell us we are wrong to love one another, and so they justify our love by sending me to my assured death. If anyone were to find out about us, we’d both surely be killed. Love like this, though… I believe it is worth the cost of my life, if I could only be with you one moment. . Jennifer Megan Varnadore
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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
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I'm nothing but my ambition to become more than the marionette others created me to be. Jennifer Megan Varnadore
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A war without a strategy cannot be won. Then it is merely a battle where more lives are lost than necessary. Jennifer Megan Varnadore
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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
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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
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The World will give you hopeless vanity, but what will you give the World? Jennifer Megan Varnadore