WILDE

“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

“What June believed and what needed to be done were not always the same thing.
What she wanted and what the hotel needed were not always the same thing.
Who she was and who she had to be were not always the same thing.
Every day she drank four glasses of that dissonance and swallowed it.”
― 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

“June had long ago discovered that most people were bad listeners; they thought listening was synonymous with hearing. But the spoken was only half a conversation. True needs, wants, fears, and hopes hid not in the words that were said, but in the ones that weren’t, and all these formed the core of luxury. June had become a good listener.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Listeners