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Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3.5) QUOTES

Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3.5) QUOTES

41 " I deal with the crap as it happens, and then it's gone. When you don't think about it, it lives forever. "

― Maggie Stiefvater , Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3.5)

42 " Cole rested his temple on the window, his eyes cast toward the cloudless sky. “I’m trying,” he said finally. “I’m trying and it doesn’t matter to anyone. I’m always going to be him.”

“Who?”

“Cole St. Clair.”

It seemed on the surface like a stupid thing to say, but I knew exactly what he meant. I knew just how it felt when your worst fear was that you would be yourself. "

― Maggie Stiefvater , Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3.5)

43 " It'll get easier," Paolo said.
But I knew that. That was the worst part. The worst part was that eventually you forgot about the people you loved. The dead ones and the ones who raised you and the ones you wanted to be with at the end of the day. "

― Maggie Stiefvater , Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3.5)

44 " I was so tired of being alone, but I was always alone, even when I was with people around me. And I was so tired of being surrounded, but I was always surrounded, even when I was by myself. "

― Maggie Stiefvater , Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3.5)

45 " I couldn't decide if he was four or nine or twelve. I had no idea of the specifics of children. He was too young to drive, but old enough to be able to turn doorknobs. "

― Maggie Stiefvater , Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3.5)

46 " I didn’t want to feel like I was the only person in the world who hated people. "

― Maggie Stiefvater , Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3.5)

47 " And here was what I was most afraid of: that Cole St. Clair would fall in love with me, and I'd fall in love with him, both of us human weapons, and we'd both end up with broken hearts. ~Isabel "

― Maggie Stiefvater , Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3.5)

48 " I’m here,” I told him, picking at the taxi company decal on
the interior of the car window.“My face is relaxed and content. My lips are curved upward.”
Sam did not laugh, because he was immune to my charms.
“Have you been to the place you’re staying yet? Is it okay?”
“I’m fine, Mother,” I replied. “I haven’t been yet. I’m going
to go see Baby now. "

― Maggie Stiefvater , Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3.5)

49 " The music video will die when we all go blind, and music will never die, because even when you can’t hear it, you can feel it. "

― Maggie Stiefvater , Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3.5)

50 " Sam just told me to tell you that the most important thing
is to not do what you did to them on the episode.”
“That won’t happen,” I replied, “because I doubt they’ll
leave the keys in the car again. Wish me luck. "

― Maggie Stiefvater , Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3.5)

51 " Here was the thing: I was in love with Cole.

Or had been. Or was going to be. I couldn’t tell the difference. "

― Maggie Stiefvater , Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3.5)

52 " There was something wrong with me. The human body doesn't want to get hurt. We're programmed to feel squeamish at the sight of blood. Pain is a careful orchestration of chemical processes so that we keep our body alive. Studies have shown that people born with congenital analgesia -- the inability to feel pain -- bite off the tips of their tongues and scratch holes in their eyes and break bones. We are a wonder of checks and balances to keep running. The human body doesn't want to get hurt. There was something wrong with me, because sometimes I didn't care. There was something wrong with me, because sometimes I wanted it. We fear death; we fear the void; we scrabble to keep our pulses. I was the void. What are you afraid of? Nothing ... I wasn't meant to live, probably. This was why I was wired this way. Biology formed me and then took a look and wondered what the hell it was thinking and put in a mental fail-safe. In case of emergency pull cord. "

― Maggie Stiefvater , Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3.5)

53 " Do you have a dog? I was a dog. "

― Maggie Stiefvater , Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3.5)

54 " (air kisses, baby/air kisses/follow my breath) "

― Maggie Stiefvater , Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3.5)

55 " We stood two feet apart. There was a buffer of history between us, and everything else pulling us together. "

― Maggie Stiefvater , Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3.5)

56 " There was something wrong with me.

The human body doesn’t want to get hurt. We’re programmed to feel squeamish at the sight of blood. Pain is a careful orchestration of chemical processes so that we keep our body alive. Studies have shown that people born with congenital analgesia — the inability to feel pain — bite off the tips of their tongues and scratch holes in their eyes and break bones.

We are a wonder of checks and balances to keep on running.

The human body doesn’t want to get hurt.

There was something wrong with me, because sometimes I didn’t care. There was something wrong with me, because sometimes I wanted it.

We fear death; we fear the void; we scrabble to keep our pulses.

I was the void.

What are you afraid of? Nothing.

You are not doing this you are not doing this you are not doing this

But my eyes were already clawing over the bathroom for ways out.

Trust you?

I wasn’t meant to live, probably. This was why I was wired this way. Biology formed me and then took a look and wondered what the hell it was thinking and put in a mental fail-safe.

In case of emergency pull cord.

I was crouching by the wall, breathing into my hands.

Victor had told me once that he’d never considered suicide, not even for a second, not even at his darkest moments. It’s the only life we have, he’d said.

Even when I was happy, I felt like I was always looking for the edges on life. The seams.

I was so perfectly born to die. "

― Maggie Stiefvater , Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3.5)

57 " Oh. That. Look, that was a time long time ago.
That’s not going to happen this time. I’m clean. I just want to have a nice dinner here with my girlfriend. "

― Maggie Stiefvater , Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3.5)

58 " It’s an alien.”

“Sand crab,” Leon said. “It won’t hurt you.”

“It sure is ugly.”

“Ugly never hurt a thing.”

I scoffed. “Oh, ugly has hurt some things. It’s just that pretty hurts more.”

“Amen. "

― Maggie Stiefvater , Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3.5)

59 " There was nothing terrible about them. They had no particular power over me. No more than anyone else. It had never been them. It had always been me. This realization was like a word I had to be taught every time I heard it. The definition never seemed to sink in. They were just ordinary people. [...] It used to matter so much. It used to seem like such a struggle to not turn into my father. But now, sitting here, it seemed impossible that that could've ever happened. I had wasted so much time on this. I kept finding out that the monster I'd been fighting was only me. "

― Maggie Stiefvater , Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3.5)

60 " But I’d known when I started this whole thing that we were different in this important way: Isabel had spent her teen years caring who touched her, and I hadn’t. "

― Maggie Stiefvater , Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3.5)