WILDE

“Even he, with all his life experience and his training, saw loveliness in these surroundings. Everything logical in him was unnerved; everything else swooned.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Listeners

“She wanted, she wanted, she wanted, would it ever stop, this wanting, this never getting, this never-shrinking chasm between need and reality.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Listeners

“He looked at the side of her face, at her pensive mouth, her clever eyes. He couldn’t bear it anymore. “June, what am I to you?
The breeze made her flutter her eyelashes low. “What do you want to be to me?”
“Everything,” he replied. “I want to be what makes you smile when we come home to each other and I want to be what makes you settle under a full moon and I want to be what makes you wild when I’m gone and I want to be what makes you laugh when I’m inside you and I want to be what makes you weep when I die and I want to be everything else in between and I want to take you out into the world and see it with you, but if it has to be here, then here is where I land.”
Words rarely came easily to Tucker, but they didn’t stop coming then, breaking through the surface until there were no more left. He wanted her to know. He wanted every part of her to know, in a thorough way, in a way that left no room for doubt.
June whispered, “Then that’s what you should be to me.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Listeners

“When June looked back at herself, she remembered a blank person, an empty mirror. Other children loudly explored the world to discover who they wanted to be, but June had been silent and featureless as the surface of a mountain lake. She just listened.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Listeners