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“Books are more real when you read them outside.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“I was born with these eyes. I was born for this life.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“Hope hurt more than the cold.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“Her eyes on my eyes. I was tearing apart, inside and outside.
Her life.
My life.”
― Maggie Stiefvater

“Sometimes, I just wanted my silences to stay silent, full of thoughts, empty of words.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“I am just a mythological creature, after all. I technically shouldn't exist.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

“This is a love story. I never knew there were so many kinds of love or that love could make people do so many different things.

I never knew there were so many different ways to say goodbye.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“...she made her home in between the pages of books.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“One thousand ways to say good-bye
One thousands ways to cry
One thousand ways to hang your hat before you go outside
I say good-bye good-bye good-bye
I shout it out so loud
Cause the next time that I find my voice I might not remember how.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“I won't let this be my good-bye. I've folded one thousand paper crane memories of me and Grace, and I've made my wish.
I will find a cure. And then I will find Grace.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“Aren't you afraid?'
'Of what?'
'Of losing yourself.'
'That's what I'm hoping for.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“This is the story of a boy who used to be a wolf, and a girl who became one”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“Not dead-dying. Funny how two things could be so similar and yet so far apart”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

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

“Get some money, buy a red coffeepot, move out. Find a new place to plug it in.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“As I handed her the bag, the old scars on my wrist throbbed with buried memories.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

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

“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

“holding tight, denying the fact that eventually we all had to let go.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“I'd always liked jogging because it was a place to think.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“I never knew there were so many different ways to say good-bye.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“Sam, I really want to buy a red coffee pot, if they exist," Grace said.

"I'll find you one”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“I loved you so much right then Sam Roth.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“i want to remember”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“Now I am the unknown, the unknowable.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“Grace (talking about Sam): At the sight of him, my stomach slid down to my feet, a weird combination of relief, nerves, and anticipation all in one, a feeling that never seemed to go away.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“Isabel had gone silent in a way that shouted the silence to me.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

“But love isn't quantifiable on paper.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger