Abby Wallace > Abby's Quotes

“There was something striking about her posture; something about the tilt to her head. She was like a beautiful and lonely piece of art, lovely but unreachable.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

“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, Shiver

“Rilke said: This is what Fate means: to be opposite, to be opposite to every thing and nothing else but opposite and always opposite.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

“One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could stare at the stars for hours, their infinite number and depth pulling me into a part of myself that I ignored during the day.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“It occurred to me that there was a story behind the scar -- maybe not as dramatic as the story of my wrists, but a story nonetheless -- and the fact that everyone had a story behind some mark on their inside or outside suddenly exhausted me, the gravity of all those untold pasts.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

“Overhead, the stars were wheeling and infinite, a complicated mobile made by giants.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

“It was a life I didn’t want to leave behind.It was a life I didn’t want to forget.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Scorpio Races

“I can't tell the difference," I said. "Between not fighting and giving up.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

“The boy had my wolf's eyes.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

“We don't have time to be sad”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“Peeling off my skin / leaving just my eyes behind / You see inside my head / Still know that you are mine.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“Da" -Cole”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

“If you never saw the stars, candles were enough.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“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.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it will your heart survive.
- Rilke”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

“It was the way she felt when she looked at the stars.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Some people see what they want to see.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

“There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. About latent emotions that couldn't be acted out.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“I didn't understand how someone could be both God and the devil. How the same person could destroy you and save you. When everything I was, good and bad, was knotted with threads of his making, how was I supposed to know whether to love or hate him?”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

“Grace stopped in the door, dimly silhouetted by the dull gray morning light, and looked back at me, at my eyes, my mouth, my hands, in a way that made something inside me knot and unknot unbearably.

I didn't think I belonged here in her world, a boy stuck between two lives, dragging the dangers of the wolves with me, but when she said my name, waiting for me to follow, I knew I'd do anything to stay with her.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“Rilke says: Verweilung, auch am Verstrautesten nicht, ist uns gegeben - We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“But by blood, no wolf am I”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“Everything mattered and nothing did, and I was tired of trying to find out how both of those things were true. I was an itch that I'd scratched so hard I was bleeding. I had set out to do the impossible, whatever the impossible might be, only to find out that it was living with myself. Suicide became an expiration date, the day after which I no longer had to try.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

“It 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 Stiefvater, Forever

“Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf.”
― Maggie Stiefvater

“Once upon a time, there was a girl named Grace Brisbane. There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home in between the pages of books. She loved all the wolves behind her house, but she loved one of them most of all.
And this one loved her back. He loved her back so hard that even the things that weren’t special about her became special: the way she tapped her pencil on her teeth, the off-key songs she sang in the shower, how when she kissed him he knew it meant forever.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“His was the disease we couldn’t cure. His was the good-bye that meant the most”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“Wake me up
Wake me up, you said

But I was sleeping, too
I was dreaming

But now I"m waking up
Still waking up

I can see the sun”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

“Now, I was a fan of the simple pleasures in life: grilled cheese sandwiches without black flecks on the crust, jeans that didn't pinch the better parts of me, an inch of vodka, ten to twelve hours of sleep. - Cole St Clair, Forever.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Forever