Maggie Stiefvater
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Biography
"You're beautiful and sad,"I said finally, not looking at him when I did. "Just like your eyes. You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again."For a long moment there was only the whirring sound of the tires on the road, and then Sam said softly, "Thank you."
"It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are."
"You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again."
"As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air."
"I wish you could be kissed, Jane,' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' He flailed an arm toward the stars."
"If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human."
"Is this thing safe?""Safe as life,"Gansey replied."
"Sam laughed, a funny, self-deprecating laugh. "You did read a lot. And spent too much time just inside the kitchen window, where I couldn't see you very well.""And not enough time mostly naked in front of my bedroom window?"I teased. Sam turned bright red. "That,"he said, "is so not the point of this conversation."
"We have to be back in three hours,"Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again.""This,"Gansey replied "is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with you."
"right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like."
"His lips tasted cool and sharp, peppermint, winter, but his hands, soft on the back of my neck, promised long days and summer and forever."
"I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn’t know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay."
"Fate,"Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfast."
"And then I opened my eyes and it was just Grace and me - nothing anywhere but Grace and me - she pressing her lips together as though she were keeping my kiss inside her, and me, holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands."
"I could still smell her on my fur. It clung to me, a memory of another world.I was drunk with it, with the scent of her. I'd got too close.The smell of summer on her skin, the half-recalled cadence of her voice, the sensation of her fingers on my fur. Every bit of me sang with the memory of her closeness.Too close.I couldn't stay away."
"Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something."
"What are you wishing for?' Grace interrupted. 'To kiss you,' I said to her."
"Right now, it's hard to imagine that it is raining anywhere in the world."
"Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less."
"I am so, so alive."
"In the darkness, he is invisible, but I can still feel him beside me. Sometimes you don't have to see something to know it is there."
"You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line."
"I always listen to you. Except when I don't."
"Life's pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can.-Isabel Culpeper"
"I was trying to decide if you still had free will as a wolf. If I was a terrible person for planning to drug my girlfriend and drag her back to my house to keep in the basement."