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61 " Why did you come back?” It felt like a trick question. My hard-won hermitage — begun by me, secured by Jeremy — was no small thing. It was a chance to be someone else, and how many of those do you get? And yet I’d left it behind. I came back because I had to. Because there was nothing wrong in the world except that I was getting older in it. Because Sam and Grace had told me I should go if that was what I wanted. What I wanted was: I wanted. Isabel — I wanted to make something. At the beginning of all of this, I had just been a kid with a keyboard. It was less the game of it, and more those hours I spent falling from song to song. “I want to make an album,” I said. “I miss making music.” I could tell he approved of my answer. "
― Maggie Stiefvater , Sinner (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3.5)
62 " My wolf-sharpened sense of smell caught the scent of ice-cream cones, of asphalt, of churning ocean, of swirling beer, of first kisses and last kisses. "
63 " What an idiot I was. This perfect moment, this perfect kiss, and I was crying. There was so much wrong with me. I was so incredibly messed up that I couldn't cry when everything was wrong and I couldn't not when everything was fine. "
64 " I was the one with the heart of metal. I was the one always walking away. "
65 " He dreaded the supermarket line chitchat. He waited until the postal service lady had knocked on the door, left the package, and gotten in her vehicle to open his door. His dog dying had been bad, I could tell, but the worst part for him had been trying to figure out how to handle the pity of the vet assistants. "
66 " The sign outside the juice store had said CHANGE YOUR FUTURE WITH SUNSHINE IN A GLASS. My future was looking pretty great already, and I couldn't wait to see what would happen if I added orange juice to it. "
67 " Leyla sat in the middle of the floor performing yoga or meditation. I couldn't remember if they were actually different things. I thought meditation was the one that didn't require special pants. "
68 " I was not a disaster.I had been taken apart and put back together again, and this version of me was unbreakable. "
69 " by the time everything gets into my brain and comes out the other side, it's all transformed into a different species, pixels or channels, glossy or matte. I can't change the way i'm made. I'm a performer, a singer, a warewolf, a sinner. "
70 " I was tired of waiting. Of making. Of doing. I wanted some closure, an ending, a feeling I had gotten somewhere. "
71 " I didn’t hate them. I just never wanted to see them again. It wasn’t the same thing. "
72 " The truth was that fame was an inconsistent friend, never there when you needed it, ever-present when you needed some time away from it. "
73 " She gestured to the piano. It was a nine-foot Steinway. Because seven-foot Steinways are for posers. "
74 " You could come,” Cole said. “And be my — what is it called? Naked person. No. Muse. You could be my muse. "