Maggie Stiefvater

“But by blood, no wolf am I”

“Oh my God. What in—”I was going to be killed by two generations of beautiful women. While naked.“Mom,” Isabel snapped, interrupting. “Do you mind not staring? It’s totally perv.”

“I turned back to my extracurricular study of death and disease. Because no matter what Grace thought, I knew that in Mercy Falls, it's never over”

“I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn’t know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.”

“I had this feeling that he and I , in this moment, were a car crash, and instead of putting on the brakes, I was hitting the accelerator.”

“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.”

“Don't give me that look. I'm not trying to find out who you are. I don't care who you are. I just want to know why it is you are the way you are.”

“I'd always liked jogging because it was a place to think.”

“Every third step I ran, my breath exploded out of me all in a rush. One step to suck in another cold lungful. One step to let it excape. One step of not breathing.”

“It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things.”

“It's like how on certain days some people wear sweaters when other people can wear t-shirts and still feel comfortable - different reactions to the same temperature.”

“The entire room was so yellow that it looked like the sun had thrown up on the walls and wiped its mouth afterward on the dresser and curtains.---Cole”

“My parents had always been so careful with me, until the day they decided I needed to die.”

“It's like thinking you're going to heaven, but when you get there it turns out to be Cleveland.”

“I've been waiting for you forever." "Forever' as in several hundred years, or forever as in since my lesson began?”

“You'll have to go commando.""Is there any other way?”

“I'll cook the water for the pasta”

“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.”

“Sabes que algunas personas pueden hacer cualquier cosa. Quieren algo y hacen que suceda""Es un ser del Reino de las Hadas. Esta jugando con tus emociones. Puede robarte. Es inmune al hierro. Alejate de el""Los nombres son una forma de conservar a alguien en tu mente""Compadezo a todos los enamorados a los que no pueden renunciar al amor, por el dolor que sufren. Pues la experiencia me dice que su corazon esta lleno de pesar, un pesar que ningun mortal puede curar. "La llanura de Kildare"...”

“Right now, it's hard to imagine that it is raining anywhere in the world.”

“Sam came around the side of the car and stopped dead when he saw me. “Oh my God, what is THAT?” I used my thumb and middle finger to flick the multicolored pom-pom on top of my head. “In my language, we call it a HAT. It keeps my ears warm.” “Oh my God,” Sam said again, and closed the distance between us. He cupped my face in his hands and studied me. “It’s horribly cute.” He kissed me, looked at the hat, and then he kissed me again. I vowed never to lose the pom-pom hat.”

“You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.”

“Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your entire life by becoming a wolf.”

“Most people had an acquired kind of beauty, they became better looking the longer you knew them and the better you loved them, but Cole had unfairly skipped to the end of the game, all jaggedly handsome and Hollywood-looking. Not needing any love to get there.”

“I'll cook the water...”

“Hers was a memory made up of snapshorts: being dragged through the snow by a pack of wolves, first kiss tasting of oranges, saying goodbye behind a cracked windshield. A life made up of promises of what could be: the possibilities contained in a stack of college applications, the thrill of sleeping under a strange roof, the future that lay in Sam's smile.It was a life I didn't want to leave behind.It was a life I didn't want to forgetI wasn't done with it yet. There was so much more to say.”

“I was suddenly overwhelmed by what an incredible person this boy was, standing in front of me, and by the fact that he was mine and I was his.”

“Inside the house, I turned on the kitchen light, revealing the photographs stuck every which way all over the cabinets, and then switched on the hall light. In my head, I heard Beck say to my small nine-year-old self, 'Why do we need every light in the house on? Are you signaling to aliens?”

“You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.”

“She draws patterns on my face / These lines make shapes that can’t replace / the version of me that I hold inside / when lying with you, lying with you, lying with you.”

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

“You’re my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.”

“Me perdi en un mar de frio y despues al renacer me vi en un mundo calido. Recuerdo una cosa: sus ojos amarillos!"No podia tenerle pero le tendria...""Como debia vernos grace: fantasmas que vagaban magicos y silenciosos por el bosque. Los lobos normales no suponian una amenaza. Pero nosotros no eramos lobos normales""Porque no consigo que me quieran mas?""Una y otra vez aunque conozcamos los paisajes del amor su pequeño cementerio lleno de nombres tristes y el abismo terrorificamente silencioso en el que caen los otros... (Pag. 280)""La vida se mide en momentos como este""Caigo en el abismo tremuloTendiendo la mano hacia tiPerdiendome en una pena heladaEs este amor fragilUn modoDe decirAdios""El viento me golpeo de nuevo pero ya no tenia poder sobre mi. El frio me entumecia los dedos, pero no los transformaba en otra cosa”

“I didn't want normal until I didn't have it anymore”

“i was an open wound”

“Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream”

“i want to remember”

“Sailing to an island unknownFailing to find your way homeyou walk under a sealeagues beneath us”

“here we were again , always saying good-bye”

“It was a life I didn’t want to leave behind.It was a life I didn’t want to forget.”

“Strange what love taught you about yourfaults.”

“His was the disease we couldn’t cure. His was the good-bye that meant the most”

“Now I am the unknown, the unknowable.”

“I never knew there were so many different ways to say good-bye.”

“Gift of time in me enclosedthe future suddenly exposed”

“Isabel had gone silent in a way that shouted the silence to me.”

“it must be hell when we kill something , we must be the worst way to die”

“a life is measured by moments like these”

“sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .”

“i'm almost gone”