It was the stop that happened when you made up your mind to confess, but your mouth betrayed you in the end.
Maggie StiefvaterI wasn't sure if I admired him for feeling everything so hard and fiercely, or if I was contemptuous of him for having so much emotion that he had to spill it out every window of the house.
Maggie StiefvaterIt seemed like the best weapons in my life had always been the most innocuous: empty plastic bins, a blank CD, an unmarked syringe, my smile in a dark room.
Maggie StiefvaterSam: “You—you greatly overestimate my self-control.” Grace: “I’m not looking for self-control.
Maggie Stiefvaterthe intermittent breeze carried her scent to me again and again , singing in another language of memories from another form .
Maggie StiefvaterCole kissed me.. It was the sort of kiss that would take a long time to recover from. You could take each of our kisses, from the very first moment we'd met and put them on a slide in a microscope, and I was pretty sure what you'd find. Even an expert would see nothing on the first one, and then on the next one, the start of something - mostly outnumbered, easily destroyed - and then more and more until finally this one, something that even the untrained eye could spot. Evidence that we'd probably never be cured of each other, but we might be able to keep it from killing us.
Maggie Stiefvater