I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing they weren't the same thing. Maggie Stiefvater More Quotes by Maggie Stiefvater More Quotes From Maggie Stiefvater What were you thinking about? When I came in?" "Being Sam," I said. "What a nice thing to be," Grace said. And then she smiled, bigger and bigger, until I felt my expression mirror hers, our noses touching. Maggie Stiefvater nice mirrors thinking I had a weird, empty feeling inside me. Not a bad sort of empty. It was a sort of lack of sensation, like being in pain for a long time and then suddenly realizing that you're not anymore. It was the feeling of having risked everything to be here with a boy and then realizing that he was exactly what I wanted. Being a picture and then finding I was really a puzzle piece, once I found the piece that was supposed to fit beside me. Maggie Stiefvater pain boys long his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me was far more intimate than copping a feel could ever be. Maggie Stiefvater eye yellow way I walk through the seasons and always the birds are singing and screaming and keening for love When you're with me it seems so absurd that I should be jealous of the jay and the dove. Maggie Stiefvater jealous singing bird One thousand ways to say good-bye One thousands ways to cry One thousand ways to hang your hat before you go outside I say good-bye good-bye good-bye I shout it out so loud Cause the next time that I find my voice I might not remember how. Maggie Stiefvater voice bye might Or even tell me it's because you could not live without The Boy's stunning Boyfruits for another night..." Sam's face was twisted into a weird shape at the mention of his Boyfruits. Maggie Stiefvater shapes night boys Don't give me that look. I'm not trying to find out who you are. I don't care who you are. I just want to know why it is you are the way you are. Maggie Stiefvater trying giving looks I watched the edges of the leaves slowly unfold, fluttering in the breeze. "How long did you wait?" It would've been unbearably romantic if he'd had he courage to look into my face and say it, but instead, he dropped his eyes to the ground and scuffed his boot in the leaves- countless possibilities for happy days- on the ground. "I haven't stopped. Maggie Stiefvater eye waiting long I had this feeling that he and I , in this moment, were a car crash, and instead of putting on the brakes, I was hitting the accelerator. Maggie Stiefvater hitting car feelings I turned back to my extracurricular study of death and disease. Because no matter what Grace thought, I knew that in Mercy Falls, it's never over Maggie Stiefvater disease grace fall Oh my God. What in—” I was going to be killed by two generations of beautiful women. While naked. “Mom,” Isabel snapped, interrupting. “Do you mind not staring? It’s totally perv. Maggie Stiefvater mom beautiful two But by blood, no wolf am I Maggie Stiefvater blood Do you feel better?” I asked Sam as he opened the door to the Volkswagen for me. “Yes,” he said. He was still a terrible liar. “Good,” I said. I was still a fantastic one. Maggie Stiefvater feel-better liars doors There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. About latent emotions that couldn't be acted out." "Cole's thoughts on page 248 of Linger. Maggie Stiefvater awful pages silence I was suddenly overwhelmed by what an incredible person this boy was, standing in front of me, and by the fact that he was mine and I was his. "Right now," Sam said - and I saw that he held the invoice for today's studio time in his hand, folded into a bird with sun-washed wings - "it's hard to imagine that it is raining anewhere in the world." "From Linger, page 258 Maggie Stiefvater rain boys hands I considered calling Grace to ask her what I should say to a reticent suicidal werewolf, but I'd left my phone somewhere. Car, maybe. Maggie Stiefvater suicidal car phones Sometimes, your eyes see something your brain doesn't. You pick up a nmewspaper and yourhead gives you a phrase that you didn't consciously read yet. You walk into a room and you realize something's out of place before you've bothered to properly look. I felt that happening now." "Sam's thoughts on page 304 of Linger. Maggie Stiefvater eye brain giving Did you know you get one happy day for every one you catch?... One happy day for every falling leaf you catch" -sam Maggie Stiefvater happy-day leafs fall I'd always liked jogging because it was a place to think. Maggie Stiefvater jogging thinking Every third step I ran, my breath exploded out of me all in a rush. One step to suck in another cold lungful. One step to let it excape. One step of not breathing. Maggie Stiefvater breathing cold steps