01c. 1981 ADToday, Blue thought, is the day I stop listening to the future and start living it instead.Maggie Stiefvater / quote ↗
02c. 1981 ADA realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didn't change how you lived in the present. They were truth, but they weren't all the truth.Maggie Stiefvater / quote ↗
03c. 1981 ADHis yellow eyes were half-lidded as he sang, and in that golden moment, hanging taut in the middle of an ice-covered landscape like a single bubble of summer nectar, I could see how my life could be stretched out in front of me.Maggie Stiefvater / quote ↗
05c. 1981 ADI was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.Maggie Stiefvater / quote ↗
06c. 1981 ADThey didn't need the words, if they were willing to be silent long enough to learn to speak without them.Maggie Stiefvater / quote ↗
07c. 1981 ADI don't trust the ocean, either; it would kill me as soon as not. It doesn't mean I'm afraid of it.Maggie Stiefvater / quote ↗
09c. 1981 ADHe sounded absolutely miserable. “Are you ever going to speak to me?Maggie Stiefvater / quote ↗
10c. 1981 ADI said uselessly, "Sam, don't go."Sam cupped my face in his hands and looked me in the eyes. His eyes were yellow, sad, wolf, mine. "These stay the same. Remember that when you look at me. Remember it's me. Please.Maggie Stiefvater / quote ↗
11c. 1981 ADYou really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs.Maggie Stiefvater / quote ↗
12c. 1981 ADThere was nothing particularly intimate about the way they sat, but something about the scene made Gansey feel strange, like he’d heard an unpleasant statement and later forgotten everything about the words but the way they had made him feel.Maggie Stiefvater / quote ↗
13c. 1981 ADWhen Ronan thought of Gansey, he thought of moving into Monmouth Manufacturing, of nights spent in companionable insomnia, of a summer searching for a king, of Gansey asking the Gray Man for his life. Brothers.Maggie Stiefvater / quote ↗
14c. 1981 ADI take it we're friends now," Henry said. "We must be," Gansey replied. "Jane says it should be so.""It should be so," Blue agreed.Maggie Stiefvater / quote ↗
15c. 1981 ADEven though Ronan was snarling and Noah was sighing and Adam was hesitating, he didn’t turn to verify that they were coming. He knew they were. In three different ways, he’d earned them all days or weeks or months before, and when it came to it, they’d all follow him anywhere.Maggie Stiefvater / quote ↗
16c. 1981 ADViolence was a disease Gansey didn't think he could catch. But all around him, his friends were slowly infected.Maggie Stiefvater / quote ↗
17c. 1981 ADDo you eat all of the men in the family? Where do they go? Does this house have a basement?Maggie Stiefvater / quote ↗
18c. 1981 ADIt's easy to convince men to love you, Puck. All you have to do is be a mountain they have to climb or a poem they don't understand. Something that makes them feel strong or clever. It's why they love the ocean.Maggie Stiefvater / quote ↗
19c. 1981 ADCrashing into the trembling voidStretching my hand to youLosing myself to frigid regretIs this fragile loveA wayTo sayGood-byeMaggie Stiefvater / quote ↗
20c. 1981 ADIt wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with him before, hungry, wanting, desperate. It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with anyone before. This kiss was so soft that it was like a memory of a kiss, so careful on my lips that it was like someone running his fingers along them.Maggie Stiefvater / quote ↗
21c. 1981 ADHe trailed through hallways, ducking under arms no longer there, excusing himself as he pressed through conversations long since ended.Maggie Stiefvater / quote ↗
22c. 1981 ADI had spent so much of life being afraid or living the memory of being afraid.Maggie Stiefvater / quote ↗
24c. 1981 ADOne day a wolf bit a man and the man caught it. Magic or science, it's all the same. The only thing magical about it is that we can't explain it." ~SamMaggie Stiefvater / quote ↗
