Maggie Stiefvater, Forever Quotes

People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.

Scent is the strongest tie to memory.

I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.

We sat like that for a long while, and when we stood up, all my sad things were in boxes, and Beck was my father.

I'm so tired I never want to wake up again. But I've figured out now that it was never them that made me feel that way. It was just me, all along.

Not all. Some of them he probably lectured to death.

Cole sat back up, slowly, and I opened my eyes. His expression, as ever, was blank, the face he wore when something mattered. He said, "That's how I would kiss you, if I loved you.

I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, with none of my previous decisions, conversations, or expectations coming with me.

He sounded absolutely miserable. “Are you ever going to speak to me?

In the darkness, he is invisible, but I can still feel him beside me. Sometimes you don't have to see something to know it is there.

I always listen to you. Except when I don't.

Because you have only known me for like fourteen seconds and seven of those were us making out and you still know more about me than all of my friends in this stupid place.

I was trying to decide if you still had free will as a wolf. If I was a terrible person for planning to drug my girlfriend and drag her back to my house to keep in the basement.

Are there any other missing persons living under your roof? Elvis? Jimmy Hoffa? Amelia Earhart? I'd just like full disclosure now, before we go any further.

I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself.

He was every angel and every devil.

Wie lange braucht man jeden Tag, bis man sich kennt.""How long it takes us, each day, to know each other.

Cole, " I said, "Don't lose this number.

Food, " I suggested. "Sleep. That's what I need. To get the hell away from here."Cole frowned at me, as if I'd suggested "ducks" and "yoga".

I hated this. I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing that they weren't the same thing.

We were miles away from our real lives.

I had spent so much of life being afraid or living the memory of being afraid.

There is no better taste than this: someone else's laughter in your mouth.

They didn't need the words, if they were willing to be silent long enough to learn to speak without them.

Please kiss that girl a million times.

The future was getting here faster than I'd expected.

After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.

It was her eyes and my eyes and I felt a surging sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing at the right time to the right person.