Maggie Hall > Quotes

“Toska.” He leaned forward, too. “It’s a Russian word. It has no translation into any other language, but the closest I’ve heard is the ache. A longing. The sense that something is missing, and even if you’re not sure what it is, you ache for it. Down to your bones.”
― Maggie Hall, The Conspiracy of Us

“The thing is, being lonely is like walking in the cold without a coat. It’s uncomfortable, but eventually you go numb. Once you get used to not being lonely, though, the shock of going back is like having your down comforter yanked off at six o’clock on a Minnesota December morning.”
― Maggie Hall, The Conspiracy of Us

“There was non-mistake, not-nothing blood everywhere.”
― Maggie Hall, The Conspiracy of Us

“When I first met you," Stellan said again, sleepily, "I thought you were an idiot. Who gets on a plane with a stranger who just pulled a knife on her?" he said. "What is wrong with you? I could have been a serial killer.”
― Maggie Hall, Map of Fates

“Because it’s worse to wish for something that’s never going to happen and be disappointed than to never wish for anything at all,”
― Maggie Hall, The Conspiracy of Us

“I've never considered breaking that oath before. Ever. But I did, for you. To keep you safe. Everything--from letting you go at the prom, to tonight at the ball--it's all been for you. As much as I tried to tell myself it was for the Saxons, it wasn't true. As much as I said I was going to Istanbul just for Fitz, it wasn't true. Every second I wasn't with you, I was thinking about you. Worrying about you. It wasn't for them. It was all for you.”
― Maggie Hall, The Conspiracy of Us

“Sometimes I can’t tell whether you’re trying to interrogate me, or kill me, or sleep with me.”
― Maggie Hall, The Conspiracy of Us

“The sun came out the next day, which it had no right to do.”
― Maggie Hall, The Conspiracy of Us

“Love and hate. Good and bad. Salvation and destruction. They weren’t opposites, either. We were both. I was both. Maybe everyone was. Maybe that was okay. Maybe we did what we could with whatever we were given.”
― Maggie Hall, The Ends of the World

“It’s just that I spent so many years persuading myself not to—persuading myself I wouldn’t be able to—feel anything real for anyone that I don’t think I quite believed it when I fell hopelessly, desperately, absurdly in love with my fake wife.”
― Maggie Hall, The Ends of the World

“Dance?”
“Why?” I said through my forced smile.
“Because we appear to be on a dance floor, and it would look strange not to.”
― Maggie Hall, The Ends of the World

“The only thing that feels right is as wrong as it can get”
― Maggie Hall

“I know you’re afraid of falling, but sometimes you’ve got to let go.”
― Maggie Hall, The Ends of the World

“Love can cause people to do some pretty ugly things.”
― Maggie Hall, The Ends of the World

“The rightful One and the girl with the violet eyes
The One, who walks through fire and does not burn
The girl, born of the twelve
Their fates mapped together become the fate of the circle
Through their union, the birthright of the Diadochi is uncovered.
The riches of Iskander, the power of Zeus, the means to vanquish the greatest enemies.
The One, when it is his, becomes invencible.”
― Maggie Hall, Map of Fates

“I know your choices being taken away is your favourite point of moral outrage right now, but it's not that simple. I'm pretty sure what we were about to do takes two people. That makes it my decision as much as yours. And I don't feel comfortable taking advantage of a girl who was drunk and upset and otherwise not thinking clearly. And yes," he said stiffly, when I tried to get a word in, "taking advantage is what it's called when a guy has to get a girl drunk for her to look in her direction. Okay?”
― Maggie Hall, Map of Fates

“It’s seductive being wanted.”
― Maggie Hall, The Ends of the World

“I pledge my loyalty. By blood and to the ends of the world.”
― Maggie Hall, The Ends of the World

“It felt dangerous. It felt amazing. It felt like of course the lights were out, because all the electricity in the city was in my veins.”
― Maggie Hall, The Ends of the World

“Do you know what a fate map is in biology? It’s a map of which cells in an embryo should develop into which specific adult tissues. But what they should develop into isn’t necessarily what they actually do develop into. They can be manipulated, or change on their own, and end up as something completely different from what they were fated for.”
― Maggie Hall, Map of Fates